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And there's so little information available/presented to the person who has to make that choice, as to which ones do work, or which ones they should even want t

by roc 13y ago

And there's so little information available/presented to the person who has to make that choice, as to which ones do work, or which ones they should even want to work.

danielweber 13y ago
You might find some old mailing list that says "oh, you need to grgab version 1.2.3 of package_thing" But version 1.2.3 of package_thing was obsolete 3 years ago, and the latest version requires you to update your glibc. I upgrade Linux buying a new system and copying what I want to the new hardware.
cpleppert 13y ago
So you mean there isn't anything magical about Linux and it isn't the embodiment of "Freedom and Choice" and every piece of software that runs on it must be carefully designed to integrate with other software packages? I'm about to faint!
VLM 13y ago
Offline and completely alone I agree, you'd have to try stuff and see what you like. Which is not awful given a decent package management system. Of course in the modern connected world, you use what your friend showed you, or google, or youtube, or some blog page. screencasts, and tutorials, and faqs. I've never considered the free software community to have a shortage of opinionated highly vocal people. Someone turned me onto the Awesome window manager, don't remember who or where. Probably 20 years ago I mostly used emacs but the smartest engineer I worked with used vi, so peer pressure struck. I learned GIT from a text blog tutorial quite a few years ago. I watched a screencast on Arduino IDE installation (which was embarrassingly simple and worked perfectly)
- ctdonath 13y ago
  Great. Now I have to spend inordinate time mining the proliferation of answers for the correct one. Google is great at showing you wrong/invalid/incomplete answers to questions asked years ago, burying the rare & obscure answers you're looking for. This instead of it just working, and/or having a definitive central answer site.

by roc 13y ago

And there's so little information available/presented to the person who has to make that choice, as to which ones do work, or which ones they should even want to work.

danielweber 13y ago

You might find some old mailing list that says "oh, you need to grgab version 1.2.3 of package_thing" But version 1.2.3 of package_thing was obsolete 3 years ago, and the latest version requires you to update your glibc. I upgrade Linux buying a new system and copying what I want to the new hardware.

cpleppert 13y ago

So you mean there isn't anything magical about Linux and it isn't the embodiment of "Freedom and Choice" and every piece of software that runs on it must be carefully designed to integrate with other software packages? I'm about to faint!

VLM 13y ago

Offline and completely alone I agree, you'd have to try stuff and see what you like. Which is not awful given a decent package management system. Of course in the modern connected world, you use what your friend showed you, or google, or youtube, or some blog page. screencasts, and tutorials, and faqs. I've never considered the free software community to have a shortage of opinionated highly vocal people. Someone turned me onto the Awesome window manager, don't remember who or where. Probably 20 years ago I mostly used emacs but the smartest engineer I worked with used vi, so peer pressure struck. I learned GIT from a text blog tutorial quite a few years ago. I watched a screencast on Arduino IDE installation (which was embarrassingly simple and worked perfectly)

ctdonath 13y ago
Great. Now I have to spend inordinate time mining the proliferation of answers for the correct one. Google is great at showing you wrong/invalid/incomplete answers to questions asked years ago, burying the rare & obscure answers you're looking for. This instead of it just working, and/or having a definitive central answer site.