loud helm
I've had it with Linux. How can anyone justify constantly having to use the CLI to even begin to make the software usable? I hate this garbage. You have to be a masochist to actually enjoy using Linux as your main OS. Linux users have maximum cope, word of advice? Don't switch to Linux if you actually like your sanity.
quiet hearth
And probably Don't switch to Linux if control and access aren't your daily ingredients.
teal goblet
Pop!_OS for the win 🖖 stay away from that one if you.... if... hmmm
violet furnace
I've had it with Linux. How can anyone justify constantly having to use the CLI ...
Security, IoT dev, its possible it applies better to the field of robotics, and ARM. I think Android is Linux
Python has that issue I think, has its benefits. Idk what Lua compensates for yet, there's Go.
Idk the exact code, its like .perl and I think that could be Pascal. Could be wrong
In Linux
loud helm
Pop!_OS for the win 🖖 stay away from that one if you.... if... hmmm
Man Linux users are for people who like to live dangerously
I haven't rm -rf'ed root in years tho. Barely lost anything back then but Jesus, I just have so many stability issues with things I really should not have stability issues for.
I want chromeOS to stay a thing, for aluminum to sit on top of chromeOS to give it a feel that makes it an actual viable alt to windows/Mac
I need something that just... works with ez Linux terminal VMs. But like, chromeOS just felt like android with a desktop interface
It was way too lightweight.
I actually think my current config would be much better with chrome OS now, bc I'd be able to use desktop stuff normally on chromeOS and use the Linux VMs for anything hardcore
Can't use Mac bc I hate apple with a burning passion
Google wishes I hated Microsoft as much as I hate Apple
No, I hate Microsoft because they're rivals. Also they became a soulless company over the years. Both Apple and MS meant something in the 00's and before.
The last actual innovation Apple made was the iPod Nano. I still have mine. Absolutely legendary item.
But like, Apple is a very closed, anti hobby, soulless environment and always has been. Their entire design philosophy goes against literally everything I believe in. At least Ms gave you root access to your own device and let you install whatever the hell you wanted
I need a windows device specifically because I'm really sorry but I have tried LMMS and GIMP and Krita and Inkscape and all the free alternatives that supposedly "replace" the Adobe Suite and FL Studios, and sure, they're free alternatives. That are free alternatives. krita and Inkscape are decent alts, I could legitimately not need Photoshop and Illustrator, but they're still not good enough to replace them in ways I use them. No, it's not that I'm not good enough at the tools to replace them, im good enough at the Adobe Suite to know these tools are not a replacement.
FreeCAD likewise is decent and prob could replace F360, but Autodesk has a decent enough free tier
Blender is utterly legendary but Maya and that one clay modeling tool is just still more intuitive.
DaVinci Resolve is the actual first program I ever used that made up for the fact WLMM was removed. But frankly, there's no program that was as easy and as quick and as intuitive as WLMM, and no video editor even comes close to being as good as that. CapCut is a great android app but IIRC it's paid for
Then there's the utter horror that is LMMS. The program that technically works, I guess, vs the $10,000 program of FL Studios that only professionals who make actual money own legally and the studio straight up doesn't seem to care. The android app also costs like $15 and with another $15 of VSTs you get an absurdly good DAW, if only no vocoder.
Oh my god id pay $20 just to get a vocoder in mobile FL Studios and I'd never have to buy the desktop version
But yeah. There are certain software I need that are not Wine-able / Bottle-able that require a windows device, because I am sorry Googz I am significantly more allergic to Mac than I am Windows and FL Studios isn't even available for Mac.
All my creative software requires a windows device unfortunately
Otherwise I'd switch to Chrome OS and be done with it. I am considering unplugging my Linux drive and plugging in a fresh, new hard drive (I brought like... Three spares to India with me) and instead of Linux I'd run ChromeOS Flex and run a Linux VM from within it. I just don't know if it's type 1 or type 2 hypervisor bc that might change the stability of the graphics drivers
I'd have to back up my Talosopolis project and my Antigravity chats and reinstall basically all my drivers and stuff, but I wouldnt have to reinstall all my editing software bc it'd all be on the Linux partition. I could just straight up keep the Linux partition unplugged until I wanted to play my games or whatever
I am just sick of having to go through fifty billion hoops just to make Bluetooth useable. The graphical file browser is so broken (and I mostly use the command line, but sometimes I have to use the graphics browser to load a file into something and I can't access certain hidden folders)
Eg I tried to load a /.gemini file >> Raw Data into audacity but audacity couldn't see the damned folder
That being said every day I stray further from humanity and become more of a data center
And if I am exposed to any form of windows that isn't actually nostalgic to me I immediately start SCREAMING internally like I'm being exposed to the deepest of curses
At this point I sit in comfortable nostalgia of the 90s and 00's and move on from its nostalgia, but like, I own nostalgia themed Microsoft outfits I used to joke about wearing on Halloween and April Fools now but I just even can't imagine wearing them anymore. I'd love to give them to someone who loves MS as much as I love Google, but I haven't found such a person. They'd have to be legit.
Oh my god
I just realized
I don't have to give up my BSOD outfit aesthetic I could just
Get a Kernel Panic one
No I'm not composing music during a chronic psychotic episode, it's kernel panic at the disco
floral ledge
I've had it with Linux. How can anyone justify constantly having to use the CLI ...
The immense satisfaction of compiling your own kernel
But in all seriousness, the involved nature is part of the appeal. A good chunk of things simply won't work out of the box, but Linux is an OS that rewards you for configuring and tinkering in a way that other OSes like Mac or Windows simply don't
Not to mention learning bash and general Linux usage helps a lot when you need to move into things like cloud deployments or virtual machines, where other OSes like Windows aren't an option. Knowing bash and Linux structures transfers shockingly well to production/development environments
violet furnace
But in all seriousness, the involved nature is part of the appeal. A good chunk ...
How is it different from C?
floral ledge
That's actually a pretty good analogy. Difficult to learn, difficult to get working out of the box, but it has major benefits if the time is taken to learn it.
violet furnace
That's actually a pretty good analogy. Difficult to learn, difficult to get work...
I wanted to use inline python instead of C for a pleo
I think thats a neat idea, like inverted
floral ledge
Pleo? The only one I could find is a small robotic dinosaur
violet furnace
Pleo? The only one I could find is a small robotic dinosaur
Yea
Im not saying it worked, just my idea to circumvent everything
They had a type of interface
They weren't like programmers necessarily, a toy company.
They made the roomba
And idk that really uses code, more math and syntax i imagine, with images
They got these hella niche local companies, idk, they build stuff for like a specific thing
floral ledge
I'm still a bit confused, you have one and are looking at the programming?
violet furnace
I'm still a bit confused, you have one and are looking at the programming?
I do, various parts aged too quickly, it was used and stored worse. I looked at it, it just had saved movements and habits, but I thought I could actually program it using inline python, into C to connect to it
floral ledge
Truthfully, that sounds a bit painful. Did you try using Cython? I would think that would be the best way to get it to run some form of Python, to essentially treat the Python like a compiled language
violet furnace
Truthfully, that sounds a bit painful. Did you try using Cython? I would think t...
I didnt know about that at the time, it was years ago
When I got my cat
Thanks though
floral ledge
Np
loud helm
I installed Astrolog recently, it had to be compiled.
Site was from like 1995 and it just gave you a shell file to copy and paste, and it generated a whole bunch of c files you had to make into binaries
It was very satisfying
candid ledge
this whole thread sounds like a learning opportunity
floral ledge
It really is. While Linux isn't a good choice for a main PC (unless you are a masochist or want to learn quickly), it works very well as a programming OS. I know, at least in my experience,e that a lot of programs that are related to coding have Windows as a second-class citizen. For example, JAX doesn't have a CUDA binary for Windows. That was a dealbreaker for me, and I was already using Linux for experiments and my home server. So I eventually made the switch to Linux as the OS I use for programming.
Now, with the support for most things on Linux being pretty good, I mostly use Linux. Most games I play are supported, and the only things I really need to use Windows for are specific Word/Excel features and the occasional game that doesn't work with Wine.