Great, now find a project to apply it and collect your participation trophy. :-P

and produce tons of excellent, reviewed but useless code on the way.

Unironically Lynx and Elinks.

true

“improvements” … flatpaks

*doubt*

Rather if they get merged without edits.

I’ve seen even minor changes without flawed technique or style being discussed and changed for days before getting merged.

But it’s also an excellent way to learn from pros. If the PR is worth it, they will spend the time for review and work with you until you fixed everything.

bricking a laptop with linux is incredibly unlikely.

Making the system unbootable so you need to boot from USB to fix it otoh… not so much.

it can get resource hungry but nothing even close to windows.

But as others said: Try another distro if you like to try new things - otherwise just use what works for you.

Windows

Exactly. Usually it’s uncleaned clutter accumulating and filling swap. Linux, BSD, IRIX etc. are not affected by this.

In some cases it’s hardware which would affect other OSs aswell.

Simply because software doesn’t degrade performancewise. It gets better on a new machine.

Unless someone goes like “Sure, users probably never need this heavy feature but let’s bundle it anyway because fuck them!”

What part of this don’t you understand?

I understand all of it. I just point out your dilemma. Your whining will get you nowhere.

You’re a user not willing to read manuals completely but expect stuff to work at your fingertips. You’ll get older and as stuff keeps changing, you’ll find it harder and harder to catch on. You’ll spend a shitload of money to people promising the ease of good old patterns you are used to but you just can’t keep up with folks using more efficient techniques.

And well, FOSS just doesn’t seem to be your thing. Obviously, you need to unload your frustration on some service hotline worker… or random people online.

I was talking about all *nix-typical principles. e.g. that everything should integrate into batched jobs. Modularity. Human readable error messages. Transparent logging. Integrated software repositories & version control, man pages. file permissions & user groups. etc.

Stuff that seems strange and unnecessary complex for new users, who don’t know how to use stuff.

I’m talking from a users perspective.

no, you’re talking from a patreon perspective. You have no clue of the subject and you simply demand people serving stuff the way you think is best. Also you don’t care why things are the way they are.

Basically a Karen User.

The vast majority of people don’t know - or care - how their car works. They just know it has to start.

Exactly. The vast majority buys a $50.000 car and only use 2% of it’s features. And if the manufacturer starts to charge for a feature you like or decides to spy on you, there’s nothing you can do about it.

Which principle exactly? Early motif UIs still are in use in a lot of nieche applications.

Not saying UI design is easy or FOSS apps shine with excellent GUIs, but they work for their users and complaining doesn’t help.

My point is: Either improve the UI or pay someone to improve it. Or at least make a suggestion to the devs but don’t blame linux people for not providing a free product perfectly adapted to your personal habits.

This is the problem with the Linux crowd. You guys write software to write software and not because you are a user of that software.

It’s a problem you have since your OS pretends that Software (or a Computer in general) isn’t complex.

Linux crowds use *NIX principles that are >50 years old and didn’t change a lot, because they work. Not because some software devs circlejerk or want to annoy you.

It’s not a small library.

it’s featherweight compared to Windows Desktop, tho