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Yes this kind of thing is frustrating. And I may be very wrong, but I have been wondering, what if this is what open source is always going to be like. I am 100
by TaylorAlexander 5y ago
Yes this kind of thing is frustrating. And I may be very wrong, but I have been wondering, what if this is what open source is always going to be like. I am 100% pro open source and I think everything (cars, trucks, washing machines, factory machines) should be open source. But I guess if we got to that point, where the people producing the computers and the people writing the code were all on the same side, maybe things wouldn't break so often.
Also FWIW I have learned, even though I run debian, to check the Arch Wiki for tips on problems like that. One more place to check in addition to stack overflow.
- istingray 5y agoYa I wonder as well. To me it seems like Linux will always need a gooey center of tinkerers and builders. But it needs to establish mutual respect with people who can't use the CLI but need to get work done. Open source is important to the success of Earth.
- TaylorAlexander 5y agoAgree. And the grumpy user-hostile developer archetype is a real problem. I’ve been very pleased with the diversity movements inside of for example Debian. My end notion is a world where no one strictly must work for survival, and in such a case there would be lots of volunteers to keep the systems running. But for now it’a tricky to attract devs to non paid work.