Was he supposed to start with a higher skill level or something? That’s like the “just be born richer” attitude of tech

Lots of people simply don’t know.

Source: I filed bug reports to Fcitx when I first installed Debian, because I didn’t realize Debian shipped packages from the before the stone ages

As someone who loves the old designs (I’ve run Chicago95 for years now), the only thing stopping me from running CDE is it lacks first-class support from any distro I’ve used

What am I looking at (besides a generic neofetch on hardware that can’t load Google.com)

Krita > Gimp gang

We don’t deserve KDE

The last interviews I wrote the job posting for and conducted, I made it clear we give you a GPT4 subscription for the job so I expect you to demonstrate your ability to use it as a tool during the interview

Obligatory --no-preserve-root

Step 1. Install the most secure, pure, minimalist Linux distro

Step 2. Get frustrated at the complications

Step 3. Give up and go back to Windows

• a story I’ve seen happen more than once

MacOS updates* have never broke my Asahi

*May have to do with the fact I haven’t booted into MacOS since installing Asahi

That’s why Gentoo now has binary repos!

Dependency hell happens when you try to go against your distro and install something. Someone who used Linux for 20 years probably found a distro that works well for them, hence the no dependency hell.

Or they just stopped tinkering. Either case is solvable by Nix/Flatpak/Bedrock/20+ other solutions

DisplayPort gang?

And it clearly works, considering I personally know like 3 projects you made!

insert bellcurve IQ meme about Ubuntu users at the low and high end, with Arch users in the middle

I use Arch, btw

I’ve got a System76 Pangolin. It’s ok for the price (a bit pricey).I’m going with frame.work next though - while frame.work is even pricier, the upgradability is to die for.

If you explicitly add site:ourforum or quotes around large blocks of text, our forum does show up, but to appear anywhere near the front page naturally is a full-time job and not something we have the resources to dedicate.

I think, unfortunately, things like GitHub discussions are the best place for users to find things off Google, but at the end of the day you’re still trusting a profit driven proprietary company

Amongst many other reasons, my biggest is it’s not searchable by search engines.

That’s why we made forum.2009scape.org for our project. Yet the SEO is so bad that nobody finds anything we put there anyways.

I edited the comment to provide actual info, it was originally just the first paragraph

Thinking AI is an upgrade from pencil to pen gives the impression that you spent zero effort incorporating it in your workflow, but still thinking you saw the whole payoff. Feels like watching my Dad using Eclipse for 20 years but never learning anything more complicated than having multiple tabs.

For anyone who wants to augment their coding ability, I recommend reading how GPT (and other LLMs) work: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

With that in mind, work on your prompting skills and give it a shot. Here are some things I’ve had immense success using GPT for:

• Refactoring code
• Turning code “pure” so it can be unit-testable
• Transpiling code between languages
• Slapping together frontends and backends in frameworks I’m only somewhat familiar with in days instead of weeks

I know in advance someone will tunnel vision on that last point and say “this is why AI bad”, so I will kindly remind you the alternative is doing the same thing by hand… In weeks instead of days. No, you don’t learn significantly more doing it by hand (in fact when accounting for speed, I would argue you learn less).

In general, the biggest tip I have for using LLM models is 1. They’re only as smart as you are. Get them to do simple tasks that are time consuming but you can easily verify; 2. They forget and hallucinate a lot. Do not give them more than 100 lines of code per chat session if you require high reliability.

Things I’ve had immense success using Copilot for (although I cancelled my Copilot subscription last year, I’m going to switch to this when it comes out: https://github.com/carlrobertoh/CodeGPT/pull/333)

• Adding tonnes of unit tests
• Making helper functions instantly
• Basically anything autocomplete does, but on steroids

One thing I’m not getting into on this comment is licensing/morals, because it’s not relevant to the OP. If you have any questions/debate for this info though, I’ll read and reply in the morning.