But I’ve never met anyone like this. Do they exist?

Put my mother on mint. The only issue she encountered was the mouse cursor not appearing sometimes, but that hasn’t happened in a while. Other than that, she can hardly tell the difference from windows 10. You should go through with it.

Linus Minix

Unix by any other name…

The c build system that comes with visual studio. You pretty much have no choice but to use it if you’re writting c on windows.

Classic microsoft, making the worst possible version of something, and somehow finding a way to force everyone to use it.

But what if… I took Debian, and disguised it as my own distro? Ho ho ho! Delightfuly devilish, Seymore!

You can’t expect me to remember the right words for things while studying for engineering finals

It’s nice when memes are drawn completely from scratch like this. It gives just a little validation to this silly scrolling we all do everyday.

Nvidia hardware is great for anything besides gaming/daily driving. I use my nvidia card all the time for re-encoding large video files in h264. As soon as I can afford an amd though, video encoding will become the only thing I use nvidia for.

Counterpoint: why should the standard for “just works” mean no CLI? What if distro maintainers decide that their user’s experience is improved by relegating some tasks to the shell?

Thanks for reminding me that the DS9 box set is a high priority on my ripping list

Solution: install windows for them, but complain and evangelize at every opportunity. You’ll be so insufferable they’ll never ask you again.

I only use flatpack when I need the most up to date version of a software for whatever reason.

They clearly don’t consider their human capital to be all that important if they’re relagating hiring to ai. Take it as a signal that your value is too high for this company. Chaces are they would prefer to hire 2 year grads or bootcampers over experienced engineers.

Welll first you draw this head…

This meme just threatened to undo the last 3 years of daily driving linux, by making me consider going back to windows

I know it’s a meme, but I’ve never had this happen to me. What causes this?

Managers hoping genAI will cause the skill requirements (and paycheck demand) of developers to plummet:

Also managers when their workforce are filled with buffoons:

Electricity isn’t free, and neither is it’s impact on your computer hardware. The life expectancy of a circuit may reasonably be approximated as a function of watt-hours. this is why hardware manufactuers test their circuits in ovens: the heat simulates high wattage.

it doesn’t matter if the power drain is low. So long as your computer is on, it’s lifetime watt-hours are constantly ticking down.