Microsoft developed a tiling window manager before it was cool.

Is “prerequisite knowledge” a foreign concept to people these days? When I started writing extensions for Blender, I had to do a lot of legwork to understand the bpy module, and even more fucking legwork to understand Python itself, all that on top of the general knowledge of programming and algorithms from high school.

RTFM means that you should use the available resources to learn. There’s a whole internet full of them. There are no shortcuts to understanding, and you can’t expect every task-oriented guide to explain how to write a main().

In the real world, the only thing better than perfect is standardized.

Fun fact: C:\: is a perfectly valid NTFS path. Windows won’t let you create it, though, because Windows doesn’t even fully support the NTFS specification. That’s why you have to specify the windows_names option when mounting an NTFS filesystem on Linux.

Better out-of-the-box hardware support, in my experience. We have a machine learning server at work, it didn’t see the GPUs on Debian Bullseye with the driver versions specified by the manufacturer, but worked perfectly with Ubuntu Server out of the box.

A distribution that is preconfigured by professionals has great value in a practical setting, even if that value has diminished in the eyes of the kind of person that Lemmy attracts. If I had tried to get Debian working by overruling the manufacturer’s instructions, I’d have to take responsibility for it, both its maintenance and the downtime and potential damage if I had fucked something up. With Ubuntu, I get to delegate at least part of the responsibility to Canonical (while covering my own ass), and that’s something you can’t backport.

It’s not about saving ten seconds of typing. It’s about supporting OP’s claim with credible sources. And I have to stress credible because mainstream journalism has a tendency to turn unverified or downright false claims into a woozle.

In his newest (and worst) How Do You Do Fellow Kids moment, Mark Zuckerberg launches the Poob service, accessible exclusively through the Metaverse. What does it do? Fucked if we know.

As a university sysadmin that spent half a fucking hour yesterday trying to log someone out of a classroom computer’s MS Office software (the “sign out” button did fuck all, go figure): fuck Microsoft, fuck Office, fuck Outlook, fuck Onedrive, fuck their SSO, and their mother too. Next semester I’m sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they’ll like it.

I might be a little angry.

adduser is an interactive wrapper for useradd. It can, for example, prompt the user to set a password rather than execute passwd separately. Very useful if you just want to manage a user without reading through useradd’s command line options, then running usermod because you forgot to set something.

It doesn’t excuse the bad naming, I’d rather have something like useradd --interactive, but it’s worth remembering.

Fuck it. *uses ulong to store a boolean*

I wish my one bad experience in 2015 had been the absolute last time Pulse failed for anyone ever. Alas, time doesn’t work that way, and Pulse remained failure-prone for years after my encounter with it.

Extremely frequently. Digital musical instruments generally don’t output production quality sounds – they output MIDI data that describes what note is being played, and an audio synthesizer device or software interprets it and generates the audio data.

Very mature. If you’re going to act like a toddler, I’ll put you in the timeout box.

For the record, your reply to my comment had no bearing on my decision, and I’ll preserve the entire comment chain in case I find myself on YPTB.

Very mature. If you’re going to act like a toddler, I’ll put you in the timeout box.

Memes are not necessarily meant to be funny. They’re meant to represent a common experience within a group. The horrid failure rate of PulseAudio just a couple years ago fits that definition perfectly, and in fact it’s why I gave up on Ubuntu 14.04 in 2015.

I think you’re confusing it with Manjaro, which has had several.

Well that’s not true. I live in a Soviet era house that had an entire second floor built on top of it. We’ve had to drill through the brick walls to replace the natural gas pipes with pipes that run outside the walls, we’ve had to dig under the foundation when we got connected to the city’s sewer system (again, Soviet-built), and again when the main water pipe burst and threatened to wash out the foundation. If the load-bearing walls had been constructed to the same “it works” standard as the things we’ve had to fix, we wouldn’t have a house anymore.

Not even the man RMS himself uses GNU/Hurd or Guix, which is hilarious.

You should check out the tldr program. It’s a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.