Mastering? It's an OS not a skill.
Are really looking down on people because you open the terminal often instead of being able to click something?
this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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I use Mac and also open terminal often. Then again, I’m a software engineer and I have work to do, that doesn’t include trying to troubleshoot problems with my OS.
I'm in the same position. My Linux machine is for gaming and .... Interesting tasks that could be hazardous to set up on my Mac.
The hardware quality is sublime as well. However, dailing Linux for a bit and going back to MacOS made me appreciate it more. Homebrew is a hair slow tho 😂
Interesting tasks that could be hazardous to set up on my Mac.
Avast! Nothing interesting to see here mateys. It just be a Linux server serving...files. The legally obtained kind, I might add. Yarrr!
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I used to use ~~MacOS~~ OS X in the mid-2000s, and the reason why I liked it was precisely because it was the best UNIX.
It's a shame Apple moved away from things like bash, Applescript, Automator, Xserve, machines with toolless chassis and good upgradability, etc.
There's a better timeline where Woz was also brought back to Apple, OS X was just another linux distro that came with Apple's very nice hardware, and the combined Linux and Mac user space meant game devs would take it seriously. Also, Mac/linux had a real foothold in the educational space again.
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Mastering? It's an OS not a skill.
Linux skills are often a requirement of sysadmin jobs.
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It's this community, so yes.
The technology labor market disagrees. Careers are built on mastering the Linux OS.
Wow, really? So, basically, since 1999 or so, I could have had a built up career because I mastered the Linux OS. I have built up a career in something else totally unrelated. Do you think I'd be richer and famouser, too? Maybe I should have just thrown myself at the technology labor market and taken control of it, like I do with the terminal app. snort reapplies tape to broken glasses snort snort readjusts pocket protector prefers platform games with a penguin over a guy with a moustache snort snort
In software, it seems incredibly common for companies to give developers MacBooks and then have their software deployed on a linux VM in AWS.
It's just one of the lower friction corporate options for software companies. The last time I used an institutionally managed linux computer was college.
There's definitely tech jobs where you need to know linux. But there's also a ton of jobs where you don't have to know much of anything about it beyond common unix stuff, and where OS X specific knowledge is more useful.
When time is money, businesses give 0 shits about your Arch install, to be blunt, OSX and Apple are there to do work.... Thay being said, I loves me some Unix Porn 😅 Sorry for the spicy reply. ❤️
Companies generally want something they control, so they can lock your computer and wipe it remotely when they lay you off.
They care about your arch install because they don't want it any more than your OS X install. Their arch install would be fine, but their JAMF controlled OS X install is probably much cheaper for them to manage, practically speaking.
their software deployed on a linux VM in AWS.
Precisely one niche where mastering the Linux OS provides bread.
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Are really looking down on people because you open the terminal often instead of being able to click something?
Uh...No. Of course not. That would be silly.
It's all in good fun...I hope.
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Love that Star Trek memes are spreading to other communities.
But is it really a different community? Sure, the name is different, but it's probably the same people.
Literally all the meme comms are just linuxmemes.
Locked away in a box for years and suicidal?
Considering they often have the same shell, this is pretty funny
I copied my .zshrc from my Linux laptop to my work Mac, and yep, it all feels the same. A few minor differences (ls on Linux will allow arguments after the files, on Mac it won't) and a few things to learn (I never really used open on Linux, but it's essential on Mac), and the clipboard interface is different (xclip vs. pbcopy
but that doesn't really count, since it's a GUI thing).
The only weird difference I've run into has been the stat command behaving differently with dif args
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I've had to use a M2 pro for a month now. I expected dumb design choices. I did not expect the amount of bugs and incorrect implementations. MacOS feels like such a shitty operating system. Hardware is decent though.
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So then Windows is one of the random genocidal Soong cousins?
Windows is Jar Jar who somehow found his way here.
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Hey it's me Nix but also it's me Nix flakes and that's not all it's me Nix language
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