My current view of Linux

[Fanboi]

Thank you for your response though I feel that I never really complained about Linux but rather kept voicing it's worth.

I realize there are many distros that are made for specific purposes but my viewpoint of an OS is what you stated; a kernel for the hardware, drivers sitting on top of that, and software at the USER level. Few people would want to run server software on a laptop for daily use. And I am trying to learn the CLI but just like the Spanish I'm learning I pick up a few things then walk away and quickly forget them. And I'm positive everything you've said is true and well meaning my thinking is not for those who are deep into Linux. My thinking is for the 95% on Windows that I hope see the light and come to Linux. For them the GUI is more important than anything else. And once they have to use the Terminal they may not be as interested as I was.

So lately I have been jumping on the forums looking to help other beginners. My focus being more with the people coming from Windows and using an Ubuntu variant or a variant similar. I am working to learn but at the same time I have Spanish I'm learning because I retired from America to Colombia. I am working to learn Unreal Engine 5 and it's processes. And I'm trying to learn the Terminal commands. I still have to google "how do I do that again?" but less and less.

But at the same time, why do Linux people keep questioning my programming history? Why would anyone come onto a forum and make up crap they never did? That stuff comes out sooner or later. And I worked ****ing hard to grow to the level I did.

Peace

I think then you'd be a good fit for the Mint community, or perhaps more specifically the Cinnamon desktop. Currently of all DEs out there, Cinnamon offers the best combo of ease-of-use and familiarity vs comformity. Ultimately, it's about the DE if your audience (and yourself) prefer a GUI. So I'd think about an abstract frontend that could act as a "Control Panel" across various components. That's the only way you could provide something that's agnostic... I wouldn't envy you the work, but if you do throw something like that up on Github/Gitlab/wherever, I'm pretty sure a decent PoC would get you contributors if you've become an active member or contributor in any flavour like Mint or antiX that has a really willing community. So far I can immediately note that most Settings Manager flavours don't account for everything. If I use Rox filer, XFCE's Settings Manager would not provide me ways to configure it OOTB. And this is the same across distros. Settings Managers are tweaked to work with the components of each DE first, and then extended for other components to be added. So, it'd be a big project, but if you pulled it off, well, I'll buy you a beer. Heck, if it bings a decent number of people away from MS -- especially now that they're removing the ability to uninstall Recall spyware -- I'll buy you a six pack.

*No offense was intended earlier, just to reiterate. Only reason I pointed the complaints out was because a lot of people complain about Linux without understanding it.

You had some questions...

But at the same time, why do Linux people keep questioning my programming history?

I cannot answer that here because this thread will get shut down because some people cannot behave so there's a blanket rule about these discussion. Heck, I may be about to set a toe just on the line just by offering you a hint. Hint: read everything you have posted since joining. Go back and read all the things you've posted. And while doing so, pretend you're reading what somebody else wrote.

Why would anyone come onto a forum and make up crap they never did?

I hope that was meant satirically... Still, I'll answer: Because people need validation. Even more so if they don't get it IRL. The internet provide a perfect space to form parasocial relationships to get validation. And to get one's idealised self validated at that. Wost-case: one fails, makes a new persona, and is back in business. And...

That stuff comes out sooner or later

...doesn't matter given the disposable nature of accounts. And it's actually not that easy to call BS on someone on a civilised forum like here. So it wouldn't necessarily mean vissible reputation damage if it did.

I hope you foud the information of some use. It's intended in good faith, as always.

- J

 

[Darc Sceptor]

That was a fun read for me @Darc Sceptor, so thanks for that.


There's very good reasons why the command line is so ubiquitous in linux. As an example, if you read a manual page such the one for "find", the number of options with combinations of options, and the functional capability of the command, is rather large, and for a GUI to cover all the possible combinations would involve hundreds of click boxes in perhaps hundreds of windows.

I see a GUI for that. You provide a menu File Options Postional Help
File will let you start new or close and whatever else is file specific -- Options and Positional are those "always true" so you can change selectively to false Help is help/About

Much will be just a text input and that will be processed by a language processor. There is a file that feeds the UI that contains all of the definitions and rules for the Tests section. Not much different from a compiler except that instead of distilling text into a saved file you distill it to something you execute. There may also be some potential changes based on how the actions can be integrated into the language input. I have never used find and my use of anything like that is to click the Menu button a perform a search. So I would need to learn and perform many find operations to understand how to translate that into a GUI. But nothing is impossible. They programmed the find command, I can program the GUI.

 

[Darc Sceptor]

Greetings all,
That statement is very true. I remember {vaguely} a teacher of mine in high school saying that.
I was a flight instructor for 11 years and learned more about flying by teaching it to others than I did on my own.
OG TC

I spent 1 year teaching programming OO in Visual Basic and it was an interesting experience. It actually got me a new job allowing me to leave the soul-sucking bank I was working for. I learned quickly that you cannot please everyone and even though I began the class with "This is not your normal class and will not be very easy" I still had a response that the class was hard. But at the same time they said they were glad they stayed. I had no book to work with so I had to make my own class material and I loved that. I had to look at things as a beginner and translate that into what they needed to learn. You learn the deepest elements by teaching.