@half@makertube.net Maybe I was a bit "pessimistic" - your arguments are correct. But will it matter to all developers? My take is that there will be less programmers being capable to read and write code. It will be a skill necessary for some but not for all. This new profession might not be a programmer or developer, rather a "software builder" who knows just enough about technology to not produce too much of slop. Note that this is not what I want to happen, it is just what I assume, based on what I see in the industry and on my personal experiments and the way previous technological revolutions worked out and some fantasy. ;)

I compare the AI usage to digital photography: where a professional photographer learned how to develop a photo years ago, I assume this is just theoretical knowledge toady. Probably you will learn it in some kind of education but maybe 1 of 100 or even less will do so in practice today. Code might go a similar way - and my question is, whether it is important that humans understand code in a way they do today? In 50 years from now only 1 of 100 developers might be capable to write code, some more might be able to actually read it. But will it matter? Is it really necessary to write code by yourself if the machine eventually is better in most coding disciplines? If the models keep on getting better at coding, my assumption is: yes. Coding is an art not worth investing anymore because it is slow and imprecisecompared to anything what an AI agent will be capable of in the next decades.

very good video, just to get to know some of the projects more than before - not that I hated them. cant believe the Gnome is easy statement though. 😅

Interesting changes on Firefox - Why do they include the PDF editor in the browser though? It could be an addon or even a separate application. Having it within the browser feels wrong, and I always disable it.

Skyrim actually is a great example: I olayed multiple timrs over the years on PC and it is - feature wise, UI wise - a bad game. It is not a good experience, if you do not use mods.

Similar to the new philosophy of Gnome changing the capabilities if their own apps to become worse to comply with a plan to make everythimg better in other regards. I see that this had a major push towards those of us that do not want to adapt to these changes quickly, including users and developers.

The current situation is not fixable I guess. I do agree that the support URLs should not point to Gnome anymore, and if adaptations to the old software was made, a rebranding would be fair. Pointing to Gnome, they did a bad job in the first place, is Kindergarten.

However as a resource is scare to adapt all those applicarions, that might not be something you just do over night. Also we could request from Gnome that they rebrand their tools once they do a major shift in their design philosophy, which makes it hard for others to adapt. Not that I think they should but it basically is the same argument. It is to illustrate that this is not really solvable by arguments on either side.

Pragmatic opinion: replace the support URLs and point to a side addressing the problem with solutions, that range from switch distros or become a developer and fix the issues in Mint or Gnome, so you as a user can build your own Roadmap on how you want to address it. But in an honest way without pointing at each other.

to be honest - and that probably is 100% my fault - I never got in touch with any of the social aspects. okay I habe no big projects nline, nor did I contribute much. but every time I tried to, it was ignored by maintainers. I found forks of forks of forks of drivers for my capture card, none answering my questions until after years of waiting I found a statement on why it will never be fixed by open source.

to me open source is rather a practical aspect of trustworthyness and capability to fix stuff if none is there to do it. Fix it alone that is.

with AI its not alone anymore, since I am able tonfind solutions in architectures and languages I am not proficient in. I do not say these will be better then human code, but at least there IS code which can be created faster rhan waiting for ages to be fixed by someone who has no interest in doing so.

Linux isnt the most user friendly when it comes to installing applications not in the appstore. But the McOs seems weird, I did not understand it at all. 😅

I switchd to Wayland once there were more bugs in X than on 11 - at least which affected me. A sweet spot I guess.