Chris Werner Rau

Software craftsman, DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes pro, Kotlin developer, Co-Founder @codeforbi, Co-Founder/Chief Executive Officer @ ceta, Organizer @KUG_BI

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@Philfreeze96 @TheGingerBill But why would you? I an ideal world I can just use a single package manager for everything.

Which I currently do, paru (or yay or another aur wrapper)

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@nixcraft parallel 👌

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@Shedletsky @badgraphix @fabiooreilly Not YouTube, YouTube Music

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@NetMelc @Juicewag @JakeLandauTO @fabiooreilly Those are rookie numbers 😉

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@nixcraft Go

I guess there are worse ones, but this one pains me everyday I'm using it.

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@realangrypom @AdamRackis I think it's more like this; you're a doctor and you hire another (expensive) doctor for that when you could've easily drawn the blood "for free" yourself and just paid the equipment.
Of course you can do that, and if you charge enough or just make less profit it's "ok I guess"

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@matthewjablack @dhh How do you "waste time on package management"?
My package manager saves me time everyday
Downloading stuff, maybe even compiling some things by hand, as you'd need to do on MacOS or Windows, is the real time killer

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@Wolvendom6 @DoctorWarface @Pirat_Nation Have you used Linux in the past 10 years or so? It most definitely is a general purpose OS, just like Windows or MacOS
I do everything on Linux be it working or gaming.
The only stuff not working is software exclusively developed for Windows, like bad anticheat for some games

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@Simeon45912493 @AruruNadja @DoctorWarface @Pirat_Nation Amazingly, most, if not all, Linux software is available for all Linux distros
So the aforementioned office software is available and the same on mint as it is on Ubuntu or arch 👍

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@PendulumRiding @FrankDeScushin @threadreaderapp unroll

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@ThePrimeagen Have you seen go?
In kotlin copilot doesn't really help that much, but in go it's basically needed with so much boilerplate that you need to write

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@WillFaucherVFX @wengel_ca Of course, if you're not willing to invest a little bit of time and learn something new, then yes, it may be a net loss of time at some point
But if you're a curious person, willing to learn and figure some stuff out it's so very much worth it, fiscally speaking; time is money 😉

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@WillFaucherVFX @wengel_ca That's the fallacy, people think Linux is a net loss of time.
If you are able to use Linux and are willing to invest *some* time, it's definitely a net win of time.
I can't even put into numbers how much time I save every day by using Linux as opposed to mac/Windows

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@OxideTwinjet @wengel_ca @WillFaucherVFX Depends on your use case, as with mac vs Windows
I exclusively use Linux to
- Play games; proton - no anti-cheat
- remote access servers; ssh
- (I think I successfully tried an android emulator at some point 🤔)
- have a discrete nvidia graphics card
everything works 🤷‍♂️

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@tg97643128 @QuinnyPig I do 😍
I very often say that I love it, it makes my life so much easier 😊
So many automation options 😍

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@_Mark_Atwood @QuinnyPig Super easy to write services that just work, no need to manage PIDs, easy to construct dependent targets
Really easy to automate a lot of stuff, see https://t.co/Jwj9h0n4g2
I just fricking love systemd 😍

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@AdamRackis If a so-called "engineer" stops using, or doesn't start using, Linux "because things keep breaking" then they're definitely not hired.
If they can't get that simple thing to run then I wouldn't trust them with real work.

The only valid point is "I need \$OS specific software"

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@boykissinger @wyoham @evacide Sounds like you did a partial update?

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@DivineContext @kochka22 @Nedrick_NA @dhh - pamac with my guidance.
Maybe in the future the well known keyring update.
But these problems are easy to fix by telling her what to type, while the rest was hours of research and testing, locally, without any solution in sight.

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@DivineContext @kochka22 @Nedrick_NA @dhh - missing. I figure it out still.
A year later the same thing happens, this time for a major upgrade and all the repos don't exist anymore.
I give up and just install arch. Runs perfectly since a couple of years now. Biggest problem was that she had to manually update paru and -