If you want to get a programming job, you want a good looking CV. By contributing to prominent open source projects on github, github's popularity and fancy profile system makes it look real good on a CV.

Github is a magnet for lazy vibe coders spamming their shit everywhere to farm their CVs. On other git hosts without such a fancy profile systems, there's less on an incentive to do so. Slop to good code ratio should be lower and more managable.

Does that include research time? I sit around pondering solutions, drawing diagrams, planning. When implementing harder solutions, usually 2 hours of actual deep work. But there are days where I wire up the logic and other grunt work, I can do that for 5 to 6 hours.

Aren't professional tools using node-based compositing, which ends up being just as complicated as code in big projects? They'll do anything to hide the code, because code is scary, even if it's the same.

That's fine. Unfortunately people are using it to coordinate open source software development. I don't know how people do it. You have to use the search box and scroll through hundreds of chat messages to find some code you need. It doesn't show up on google. It's just horrible.

The trick is convincing people that a literal body function is shameful and some kind of sin.

Dude, OP is looking for a distro to CONTRIBUTE to because he wants to make year of linux desktop a reality. I think he can use CLI just fine. Looking at how stupid people are these days, his prediction is likely also correct.

Sure. I booted ventoy to test distros, but when it came time to install the final distro, I wiped ventoy and reflashed it.

I think, therefore I am. If they don't think, I'm not so sure.

AI gets increasingly easy and more capable, so there's really no reason to adopt AI early in case you miss out. AI never allows anyone to miss out, the end goal is quite literally to be used by babies and animals. Any preparation you do today, is preparation you don't need to do in the near future as AI strives to take over everything.

Feel free to set AI aside and work on yourself. You won't miss out. AI won't let you miss out.

Have you used a different machine? None of your issues are what I experience(on both x11 and waland). My issues on x11 are to do with general lags and unreliable sleep/wake. It's weird how there's no consistency, everyone seems to have a different set of issues. If even the issues are different, I wonder how the devs can even fix it.

What exactly isn't ready? All I know is the lack of trackpad gestures and fractional scaling(even though I don't use it) in x11. X11 is the one that feels more janky while wayland has been smooth sailing.

I'm even developing a gtk4 program, I assume if there were problems with wayland I've would've noticed it by now. On the other hand, testing my program on debian 13 with x11 did make the experience a little jankier.

Given such huge differences in reported experiences, I can only assume it's a difference in hardware compatibility? Are some machines just better in x11 and others in wayland? Is that why everyone has such different experiences?

I wonder what's going to happen to the electron frontends if machines are bottlenecked by ram so bad. Wasn't facebook just planning to switch whatsapp's frontend to webview as well? And win11's desktop is electron too. Everyone was acting like ram is unlimited.

What. My six year old cheapo Acer laptop that got my broke ass through college had 16gb ram. My raspberry pi has 8gb of ram.