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I think it's a bit more than that, but overall I agree with what you're saying. Package managers, config managers and popular distros have been getting to me mo
by bpchaps 11y ago
I think it's a bit more than that, but overall I agree with what you're saying. Package managers, config managers and popular distros have been getting to me more and more lately because of their lack of understanding of polish or acceptable standards. It just seems like software developers, free or not free, are trying to push out as much as possible without caring about their base users.
Examples:
aptitude has maybe 8 different binaries to do essentially the same thing. Hell, for whatever reason, doing a search with it and piping to grep throws a message to stderr saying that grep isn't fully supported yet. Wtf? It's 2016!
pacman has a separate binary for searching called pacsearch. My natural instinct is to do a "man pacsearch", but it doesn't exist. The only parameter that exists is -n for stripping color, because apparently this is an acceptable default when grepping:
ESC[0mESC[1mESC[35mcore/ESC[0mESC[1mpacman ESC[32m5.0.1-2ESC[34m (base base-devel)ESC[36m [installed]ESC[0m
salt's man page has 134854 lines in it.
archlinux released a kernel compiled with a flag that completely breaks sound on one of arch's most commonly used laptops. That was 2 months ago and the community recommends recompiling the kernel. wtf. I only just noticed a couple days ago, since I wasn't able to do a full upgrade since pacman will fail if you install python packages with it - which get installed from pacman packages. Ugh..
gentoo's documentation is ancient and has typos, grammar issues and places where simple Y/N questions are difficult to figure out. I really wanted to give them a chance....
ubuntu is.... hahahahaha. hah.... hah.
systemd and anything associated with systemd is so embarrassingly difficult to use. Why does an error message that tells me to run journald commands have to be longer than the actual error?! What happened to just printing to stderr :(..
- sievebrain 11y agoThe flaky user experience of UNIX software is not a new observation: https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
- bpchaps 11y agoWow, cynical much? I've been running linux professionally as a sysadmin for going on 10 years now and have had more consistent and mindfuckingly time wasting issues in the past year than I've had in the past five years. "That wound is really starting to get bad, man. It's almost looking gangrenous" "WTF MAN THIS ISN'T A NEW OBSERVATION UGH"
- digi_owl 11y agoIf it was not so notoriously short on staff, and thus lagging the user space "state of the art", i would point you towards Gobolinux.