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Absolutely. The sad reality is that, to a lot of linux users right now (and I'm talking about people that know they're running linux, not android users), it's
by blhack 15y ago
Absolutely. The sad reality is that, to a lot of linux users right now (and I'm talking about people that know they're running linux, not android users), it's a black box.
Software is "packages" that you install with "synaptic".
Source code? Compiler? What's that?
- carbonica 15y agoThis seemed like a developer-targeted article, though. I mean, who is having trouble with even 1 million directory entries, let alone 8 million, who is afraid of a compiler?
- bcx 15y agoDevelopers who only write in interpreted languages :-)
- sixtofour 15y agoThat's not sad reality, that's success.
- Ralith 15y agoBoth valid perspectives; it depends on your priorities. Some people want computers to be a black box, because when the black box works, it means less cognitive load to use.
- sixtofour 15y agoThe most interesting thing (in this subthread) is that Linux is able to be a black box. That wasn't the case not too long ago.
- alnayyir 15y agoWell, once the hardware started working and the graphical toolkit options expanded beyond Tcl/Tk / Perl/Tk... Ubuntu accelerated the process. Despite being a long time Linux user and programmer, I'd rather know the machine is goin' to work when I haven't done anything to mangle the beast. I've spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours in the past just getting networking drivers to function. The brave new world of Linux is a good thing, the Interp-Only volken serve only to bolster the ecosystem, not harm it.