I really wanted to try developing for these. But after flashing my old poco F1 with postmarket os, the phone died instead. Now I can’t justify buying a phone just for this.

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I heard both flatpak and immutability are obstacles to developers. How bad is it really?

I’ve had NixOS absolutely refuse to run some compiler toolchain I depended upon that should’ve been dead simple on other distros, I’m really hesitant to try anything that tries to be too different anymore.

You’ll be glad to know that the difficulty comes from the syntax and very little from any programming skill level. You learn new ways of writing certain code structures like indented curly braces for example. Programming python might be easier than cpp in vim, not due to the language, but just cpp having more complex syntax to type.

Tldr, almost exactly the same amount of effort whether you’ve been coding for two weeks or two years.

I remember the basic filesystem commands like ls, cp, mv, rm, cat etc, but I generally don’t remember much more than that. Even so, I still use the GUI file manager/software center pretty often, there’s no reason why I have to force myself to use the terminal all the time.

I have an app on my phone to search for commands that I barely use and don’t remember. Don’t worry that much about it if you aren’t a professional system administrator or other such jobs.

Well yes if you measure it, but in terms of how I feel, no. I simply make preparations to get to a charger when my phone nears 20%, but if I truly can’t make it, I don’t stress over it. Small changes like charging it early rather than after dinner, charging with my power bank rather than waiting after I get home, that kinda thing. I’m not making huge changes to my life, I still occasionally get to sub 20%, but I try to avoid 0%.

The part you missed is that it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You could maintain 0-80, 20-100, 10-90.

You could also not take it as gospel but just a soft recommendation, trying to get yourself near to a charger when your phone gets to 20, and plugging out at 80 if you aren’t in urgent need for more battery life.

My laptop which mostly just stays on my desk all day, is limited to 79%. This one makes sense I think.

Why, when you have the ability to build robots of any shape or size, would you want to build a humanoid robot in particular? Are they just lacking creativity? Or is being humanoid just hype, like dotcom or AI?

No it can’t be. I’m using fedora right now and it drops me into the GNOME desktop with nothing. The GNOME tours barely count, they just tell you to login to your dropbox or smth.

Have you seen the mint one? It’s actually dummies proof. Full “It’s my first day on linux” step-by-step guide. Everything from updating, setting themes, backups, installing nvidia drivers is in there. All relevant choices are meticulously explained.

I’m so certain of its coverage, I recommend mint to internet strangers because I genuinely believe it’s sufficient even for the lowest common denominator. I can drop mint on any rando and fully trust that the Mint setup wizard will hold their hands through their first day on Linux.

I last switched distros 3 years ago, and the wizard definitely wasn’t on popOS or Ubuntu either.

Go ahead with mint. It’s the only distro I know with a fully featured setup wizard that holds your hand through the entire process. I am confident anyone who has used computers can use it.

But honestly, most modern distros are about as difficult as picking up an iOS/android phone for the first time. There are different ways of doing things, but they’re still phones and can’t be too different anyway. Same with mint, it’s just a computer, it isn’t all that different.

Last I checked, it didn’t allow additional widgets from apps, like tasker task shortcuts or firefox webapps. Quite disappointing as I’m heavily reliant on tasker and webapps like voyager that I’m using to access lemmy right now.

What if websites decide that chrome users earn much more ad revenue and start forcing users to switch with those “This website only supports Chrome” error messages? What if this practice gets popular? I’m sure there are ways to get around it, but the average users who bothered switching to Firefox at all, will just conclude that anything except chrome has a bad browsing experience.

No motives whatsoever? Was his brain on vacation or smth?

On top of being preinstalled, we also need google search-able instructions that avoid the terminal altogether. People are afraid of the terminal, it doesn’t matter why, it just is.

Currently, most solutions to linux problems come in the form of terminal commands. We would have to start creating a whole new troubleshooting forum where instructions avoid the terminal and are just lists of buttons to press in a GUI. Probably helpful screenshots too.

Of course I have no idea if some things even have GUIs at all, like configuring user groups and permissions or firewall settings, someone would need to make them. Not to mention every DE or program would need a different set of instructions, GNOME or KDE, firewalld or iptables. It’ll be a lot of work.

I used gnome though. IIRC, everything to do with customising GNOME is done through extensions, and all extensions have GUI settings menus.

My point being, even though it’s objectively harder to customise GNOME, it still doesn’t require using the terminal.

What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn’t?

It went great. I mostly had to submit files in PDF, which allowed any office software to work perfectly.

That is until covid came around and I had to do proctored online exams. The proctoring software doesn’t support linux.

My favourite game Dead or Alive Xtreme Venus Vacation works again. Ciao!

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Oh no, I hope it’s not soon.