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Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. But then you hit a wall and can't patch/write something easily. ...even on this article intro it boas

by gcbw3 7y ago

Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. But then you hit a wall and can't patch/write something easily. ...even on this article intro it boast how he prefers a tiling window manager, then move to a platform that makes them a nuisance. It's the basic trade off of short term vs long term reward. Using closed source is like having a diet of candy. Great in small amounts, but bad if you are past 5 years old. And ridiculous if you are writing articles to defend it.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
> Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. Or, you know, forever. The number of things the Linux Desktop community is actively hostile to that could make computing life so much simpler is ridiculous. Portable applications? Relative icon paths in .desktop files? A standardized set of base libraries developers can rely on being present? Linux Desktop cares not for such things. If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs.
- robrtsql 7y ago
  > If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs. I definitely feel your pain (I can't count the number of times I have run into UX issues on various Linux distros, and in search for a fix/answer find many people that ran into the exact same issue but find that the maintainer has stubbornly refused to consider changing or fixing it), but really? If you don't like something on Linux, you can fork and fix it yourself.* If you don't like something on Windows or macOS, it's Microsoft and Apple that are telling you 'fuck you, deal with it.' * Whether or not doing so is feasible is a different story..
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    Other OSs still have the advantage of, well, working in ways that aren't dreamed up by keyboard-only terminal jockeys who've only ever had GUI's described to them. I mean seriously, just look at the .desktop spec, or really any FreeDesktop.org spec, and tell me the person who wrote it had ever in their life used the GUI as anything other than a really fancy tmux.

by gcbw3 7y ago

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago

> Using windows/osx will always be more convenient at first. Or, you know, forever. The number of things the Linux Desktop community is actively hostile to that could make computing life so much simpler is ridiculous. Portable applications? Relative icon paths in .desktop files? A standardized set of base libraries developers can rely on being present? Linux Desktop cares not for such things. If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs.

robrtsql 7y ago
> If you don't want to do things their way, fuck you, that's their motto. Then they wonder why people keep choosing other OSs. I definitely feel your pain (I can't count the number of times I have run into UX issues on various Linux distros, and in search for a fix/answer find many people that ran into the exact same issue but find that the maintainer has stubbornly refused to consider changing or fixing it), but really? If you don't like something on Linux, you can fork and fix it yourself.* If you don't like something on Windows or macOS, it's Microsoft and Apple that are telling you 'fuck you, deal with it.' * Whether or not doing so is feasible is a different story..
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  Other OSs still have the advantage of, well, working in ways that aren't dreamed up by keyboard-only terminal jockeys who've only ever had GUI's described to them. I mean seriously, just look at the .desktop spec, or really any FreeDesktop.org spec, and tell me the person who wrote it had ever in their life used the GUI as anything other than a really fancy tmux.