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Huh. I'm a Linux-using, liberal-arts CS major and I had no idea that this was even a thing. I suspect that a large part of this trend is pragmatism vs idealism
by NoodleIncident 14y ago
Huh. I'm a Linux-using, liberal-arts CS major and I had no idea that this was even a thing.
I suspect that a large part of this trend is pragmatism vs idealism. From what I hear of days gone by, using *nix wasn't ever really a pragmatic decision. It may suck to be boxed into a GUI, but an engineer might be more inclined to make the compromise and get the job done than a liberal arts major.
- UNIXgod 14y agoHis references where mainly to *BSD and Bell Labs UNIX. In 1998 the open source ecosystem was something everyone was looking at from artisans to engineers. Also the landscape was different as we where all inside an economic bubble at the time whereas the article explores the discontent of administering Microsoft products over working with the shell and posix system utilities.