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"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be." No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.
by wrs 8mo ago
"I'm still a _______ guy, and I always will be."
No matter what trademark you put in the blank, this is not a healthy thing to say.
- embedding-shape 8mo agoYeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anything. I never end up doing, because things are usually not better, but maybe 1/100 times something is better, and then I switch. Initially did that around Ubuntu 9.10 before, and I'll switch away from Arch in a heartbeat if anything better comes around. Edit: I realize now that the article author, the person in the video and the quoted tweet are all the same person, and they seem to work/run windowscentral.com, so I guess that kind of explains the motivation.
- expedition32 8mo agoHonestly as a deeply antisocial person the Linux cult has always rubbed me the wrong way. Same reason why I don't have an iPhone.
- loloquwowndueo 8mo agoWhat do you use then?
- DetroitThrow 8mo agoThe biggest non-Linux non-iOS phone operating system is HarmonyOS, so I would assume he means that.
- direwolf20 8mo agoThere's also Android, which isn't Linux, but just repurposes the Linux kernel in a non–Linux OS.
- loloquwowndueo 8mo agoWell, that’s why I asked. You know what they say about assumptions :)
- direwolf20 8mo agoThe opposite isn't good either, if you're always flitting between different products and never learning any one deeply, you'll never get anywhere.
- ndsipa_pomu 8mo agoAt least with distributions of Linux, most of the knowledge is easily transferred. e.g. I tried out Arch for a while and discovered that its Wiki has some of the best information around. Luckily, Arch tends to use standard Linux tools such as systemd, so the information is applicable to almost any distribution.
- embedding-shape 8mo ago> if you're always flitting between different products But that's not what I suggested. I suggested use the best thing, try other things, switch if they're better. I don't think that's "always flitting between different products and never learning any one deeply", unless you happen to rely on tools that have new solid (and better) competitors every single month, but I'm not aware of any industry/space that is like that.
- Archelaos 8mo agoWhat about "Linux"? It is also a registered trademark.
- charlesabarnes 8mo agoFor Linux as well. In my opinion you shouldn't remain blind to the benefits of other operating systems
- zamalek 8mo agoLinux is the objectively best choice for a significant number of use-cases at the moment (not all of them). Using Linux and communicating that doesn't necessarily make you a "Linux guy." Obviously, using Linux when a better solution exists for whatever you're trying to solve equally applies. While it may not be unhealthy, it certainly isn't a good idea.
- kbelder 8mo ago"I'm a guy using Linux" - Ok. "I'm a Linux guy" - Bad. This is very much an imprecise abstraction, more like a rule of thumb. Just be careful how you think of yourself. "I ride bicycles" - Fine. "I'm a cyclist" - Getting weird. "I voted for X" - Ok. "I'm team X" - Dangerous.
- lawn 8mo agoSame problem. You shouldn't ignore BSD for example.
- switchbak 8mo agoThis is especially bad when “GUI only” goes in the blank. In the early days I mostly worked with folks that were terrified of CLIs. Windows shops typically. I still run across it sometimes, and it’s such a limiting form of identity.