[–] 38 points 1 year ago (15 children)

the idea that you can just jump to linux with zero research needs to go

  • no you can't have every game and program you're used to
  • no you can't translate windows or mac knowledge
  • yes you have to know what partitions, desktop environments, distros, and other bunch of terms mean
  • yes you may have to type terminal commands (no one complains about ipconfig when figuring out whether it's ISP or DNS problem)
  • yes there are a bunch of shit tutorials online with copy-paste commands that don't work
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  • imo the linus disaster was an unfortunate combination of

    • the unpatched pop_os issue
    • linus going TLDR (reasonable but that's on him)
    • apt messages generally being long
    • linus not having a frame of reference on which long message is good (apt upgrade listing 50 updates) vs which are bad (apt install saying his DE is about to be nuked)
    • and yes, him playing it up for the video, and willingly ignoring his gut feeling that typing "yes, do as I say" can't be doing anything good

    in the end i still think it was kinda irresponsible for linus to publish that, but the whole premise of the video was them going blindly into linux (which i also disagree but whatever)

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  • in this case, you'll probably have to create a desktop entry in ~/.local/share/applications/ydotoold.desktop

    something like

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=ydotool daemon
    Exec=the command you used to launch
    Type=Application
    

    you can look at other .desktop in the same directory for reference

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  • seems to me he's trying to be more general than the Search example and considering that another complex project may actually have those problematic cases

    i mean, he doesn't even dismiss the patterns with code duplication, just lists it as a drawback, which agrees with his conclusion that there's no one-size-fits-all solution

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