The list is itself very focused on software making. How about mentioning some end-user software as well? Otherwise it makes it sound as though software development is purely an end in itself. Why be grateful for gcc, the Go compiler or SQLite if not for the software that they enable to exist?
Software I’m thankful for (2021)
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Well you won't have an unsupported videocard on a mac as you can't plug one in. One day you'll find your mac will no longer upgrade though.
>Well you won't have an unsupported videocard on a mac as you can't plug one in. “That’s… why I’m here.” (.gif)
I think the point is that you can buy your hardware from vendors that officially support Linux and get the same benefits as Apple's all included material and system. This is especially true if you're willing to put as much money as you would to buy your computer from Apple.
Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)
#453Software I'm thankful for (2022): Everything open source, even that which I do not use myself, because it's still there to benefit others, and it's there for me to learn from, adapt, etc, etc. Even bad open source software can be a good lesson in how not do to a thing, or may have some good bits worth learning from or adapting. So yeah, I'm thankful for open source software … All of it. My use of computers has been richer for it.
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As a lifelong windows dev, what exactly makes linux worth moving to? I understand that coming from a linux world, doing what you like doing in linux isn't always possible on windows. But I've never really found a use for any of that console magic linux devs seem to love. Pipe this into that and through seven pieces of software that sound like glibgcd, add 8 arcane flags and in the end you have some kind of textfile t…
I'm not sure what a handmade program on windows looks like, so I could be wrong here, but writing shell scripts to do work takes a matter of minutes and creates composable, reliable stuff that vastly reduces the time to do other work. This means that as time goes on, more of my workflow becomes scripted and I very, very rarely work on the same problem twice. Then there's the filesystem. It just works. Permissions are…
> writing shell scripts to do work takes a matter of minutes
This is the core of it for me. Half the time I don’t even need to write a shell scrip, I just fling it straight onto the command line if I’m doing a quick one off task.
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I didn't know that, thanks! I wonder why i haven't seen this for BASH considering its probably the most common shell other than Command Prompt.
I don’t think people who use bash actually want to use it. even macos switched to zsh a few years ago.
The macOS change was likely driven by the license which keeps the shipped Bash at version 3.
The numbers for Homebrew installations of Bash suggest hundreds of thousands of people choose to use it.
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I feel like linux only works for 2 categories of people: 1. The extreme laymen that do essentially nothing outside of the web browser 2. The tech savant that has the time, energy, and motivation to spend the countless hours required to get Linux to run anything sufficiently complex. Those in-between typically have the desire to do more than they are able to easily do OOTB with Linux, but also lack the technical abili…
I think you are right. I tried linux recently. Was surprisingly nice in some ways...but constant bugs. First it was my bluetooth being strange to pair. Then mouse movement/scrolling just felt wierd. Gnome file picker being shit. Then app scaling issues everywhere... Just one annoyance after another. Not something I have the energy to deal with.
Have you tried Garuda Linux? Preferably with one of the sane DE like mate/xfce, not the default "dragonized" thing which is a crazy mess.
Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)
#457Total Commander
Notepad++
Don't need to explain I guess.
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#458> WireGuard is a great demonstration of why the total complexity of the implementation ends up affecting the UX of the product. This is absolutely true! Probably everything you could do with WireGuard you could accomplish with OpenSSL/OpenVPN, but the complexity is staggering. This makes it much more difficult to troubleshoot and far more likely that there will be an error in the configuration that could lead to comp…
I'm torn on WireGuard. Getting it set up was really easy. I think it took about an hour, which included standing up a new OpenBSD VM to run the server. Configuring clients (iOS) was pretty straight-forward and reasonable. I don't have a feeling that there's some security hole lurking in the configuration simply because there's not a lot to get wrong. In comparison, IKEv2/IPSec was incredibly painful, especially when…
That's what Tailscale is for. Sure, it adds another layer that you might not like. But underneath it is all Wireguard and at least most of it (not sure if all of it) is also open-source. In fact, the OP post was written by a Tailscale guy apparently.
Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)
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Windows is a very good operating system. Windows haters don't hate for technical reasons, but for religious or political reasons. And I like Microsoft. Microsoft makes some products, that's it. Not experiences, or promises of freedom. They are software products, with problems, qualities, end.
> Windows is a very good operating system. When it doesn't gets in the way, yes. Unfortunately this is happening less and less with every release. If i would not be forced from my employer i would stay away from Win 10 as much as possible.
> When it doesn't gets in the way, yes
How?
My problem with Windows and basically all modern UIs on all operating systems is that we are in the dark age of UI. Everything is gamified, unnecessarily complex, slow...Windows is especially bad, with a lot of old and new UI mixed in with some kind of crazy indecision, incompetence, etc.
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I use fish as my main shell and haven't seen anyone else that has. Honestly its really good, the autocomplete feature is my favorite.
Actually you can use fish-like autocomplete feature in zsh with this plugin [1]. It works well for years in my machine. [1] https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
I don't think it parses manpages for autocomplete?