Thanks! Yeah, for me it’s that I have a bad memory so memorizing argument orders and things like that felt painful. Scripting is the solution! And you learn while you do it. It’s actually kind of fun to make a solid script that works between various OSes as nerdy as that is. I’ve taken a lot of typing and memorization and turned it into writing (ideally solid) software that allows me to type 1-3 words instead of 20 words. It’s satisfying. And you’re right, it’s something people won’t get until they come to it on their own terms.

At work I routinely do laborious tasks the rest of my team procrastinates due to how repetitive and annoying it is. And often it’s with a command or two. It feels quite powerful. And it’s so flexible how you can combine languages and tools! It’s also just interesting to be reminded how all the basic problems were solved by the 1970s when a lot of these tools were created.

I used to be on the yelling guys side and boy was I wrong. I now write scripts to do anything repetitive, all the time and it’s great. I have a whole library of them I use and add to and improve all the time.

Yeah, I was wrong.

I have a Gen alpha niece. One time a couple years ago she was gleefully ripping up grass and I mildly scolded her and said she shouldn’t do that. She asked why not. I said because if everyone did that, there wouldn’t be any grass. She genuinely seemed baffled by that concept and thought it was idiotic. I’m pretty sure that was thoroughly pounded into my head by age 5. She has an awful mother and my brother is a meh parent but still. I’ve gotten the strong sense she just doesn’t have much empathy for others. Maybe it is partially generational?

They would gas and auto machine gun us down Tiannenman-square style in cold blood. Starting with minorities. They already gave up power once and don’t seem keen to do so again. Trump said he made a mistake by leaving office. It’s fucking terrifying.

I don’t understand this post. OP mad the free support not up to their standards?

I despise discord from a user interface and business practice perspective. What a piece of shit

Fuck discord and fuck reddit.

I thought that was already true

Haha someone smoked a joint

What did I miss?

Right but they’re being treated as different things in this context.

I could name any of them. Gnome Web? I think that’s it.

Lots? Really?

What the fuck? Safari is natural???

Mac os is pretty bad with that bullshit too

Amen. This is similar to the experience I have too. When I use Windows I have as many if not more problems. If I was only using a web browser, like most non-power users, I would have across the board worse issues on windows.

I wonder if you like Putin or not since all you’re doing is repeating his lies

🤮🤮🤮

Who was surprised by it? You can just know the last 10 years of US history to be in no way surprised.

Also, yeah, not a shower thought

Token Linux hater of the thread. Have a cookie for fulfilling this important role of reminding us that Linux is the only OS family that ever needs troubleshooting