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> I've been using Linux for 25 years, spent 6 or so years doing administration type work on large Unix systems, and spent 10 years in a back-end developer role.
by pravus 3y ago
> I've been using Linux for 25 years, spent 6 or so years doing administration type work on large Unix systems, and spent 10 years in a back-end developer role. I've somewhere in the high five figure range of hours spent contributing to FOSS software. More recently, I've gotten formal interface design education and worked in design roles. I am not a 'new school' FOSS nerd by any measure.
If you have trouble with tools like dig, you have wasted a lot of fucking time.
- chefandy 3y agoEdgy. Asserting that my deep consideration and professional concern with usability means that I don't understand the software is the most deliberately obtuse thing I've read this week, and I browsed Slashdot comments. Measuring usability by your own comfort level is the reason user-facing "open source alternatives" that aren't foundation-backed with dedicated designers will remain "alternative" in perpetuity. It's also the reason that centralized managed environments like AWS et al will keep replacing in-house self-hosted systems throughout the world, despite the cost, as the need for that functionality exceeds the number of people willing to learn to use the archaic unix admin tool kit circa 1985.