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Yeah, not sure how people form almost "relationships" with their tools and refuse sometimes to even explore options. I'm always open to switching almost anythin
by embedding-shape 9mo ago
Yeah, 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 9mo 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 9mo agoWhat do you use then?
- DetroitThrow 9mo agoThe biggest non-Linux non-iOS phone operating system is HarmonyOS, so I would assume he means that.
- direwolf20 9mo agoThere's also Android, which isn't Linux, but just repurposes the Linux kernel in a non–Linux OS.
- loloquwowndueo 9mo agoWell, that’s why I asked. You know what they say about assumptions :)
- direwolf20 9mo 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 9mo 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 9mo 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.