WOOOO
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Love this series!
I love these.
I've come a long way in Linux this year, let's see what he thinks of it now.
I did suggest it in one of Bryan's videos and he thought it was a good idea. I'd imagine at this point it'd have to wait until everything slows down for Wendell with what's going on with TS.
Looking forward to it if it ever happens though!
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I was a little disappointed with this talk.
I understand that the appeal of Linux sucks has grown and it was never intended as a serious discussion (more or less), but i preferred it when it had more geeky technical shit in it. However, I did appreciate that he had authors talk about Linux. As a writer myself (God I hate saying that), I found myself wondering just how in the hell these people write on Linux. Libreoffice is fucking awful for serious long form writing, so are the other word processors which i can't think of the names at the moment.
Can anyone fill me in on Bryan Lunduke andnd the premise of these videos?
I can tell it's that he's being sarcastic and all of the jokes are in good nature.
Googling him showed results of being a Linux guru who writes free books and runs a podcast. Is that it?
I use nano for the base write and the rest goes to libre office. Its been improved since I first used it (3.2.6) and the features in 5.1 rival anything else I could use.
By the by, a 37 page term paper isn't exactly short.
it's an ironic title. it's basically just a series venting about some of the issues Linux has, and some of the positive things about using it, as well as ways to make it better [in his opinion].
i enjoy watching it, but he falls into the camp of people that suggest rather than forking, Linux devs should be more centralised. which is a bizarre notion some people really go ham on these days.
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The problem is theres always a new flood of linux users. They don't trickle in like on OSX and windows. When they get in they think they know all of what they are doing and never ask for help. Then when they ask for help after working for a few years, 2 maybe, in linux people ask "Did you read the docs on the archwiki? Get us a backtrace and a debug out and we'll help ya" and they get mad because they don't know terms.
When someone new to linux comes on the forum and asks something, such as the guy asking about DE's in ubuntu, I usually give my advise (use manjaro) and say to do a little research while you fiddle with your distro. Don't know what GCC is? Ask, go on IRC or here on the forum. What does fakeroot do? What is GlibC? What is the difference between gstreamer and ALSA? If not ALSA then pulse! This isn't stuff you can google. Then we, the normal users, get annoyed and the normal arguments ensue. I say "Hey, heres the best documentation out there and these are the most reliable sources. If you have a question that you cannot find an answer to theres always an IRC channel full of people so knowledgable about your distro you will get lost" and in saying "hey, docs and stuff" that turns them off of linux.
What people new to linux need to understand is that WE are not going to bend to them. We have a mindset on how to do things. We patch whatever and move on we don't redo it. Well, some of us do... Besides the point, they need to adapt how we think, not us to them. If theres something they don't know about I am always going to push the docs and IRC to them because thats on their time and the people on the IRC are using their time to help others. Bryan shares this with me. I like the talks because what he says over and over again at each of these helps any newbs out there looking for some stuff to learn from. I love it.
i understand if there's 12 threads on the subject already pinned on the top bit of whatever forum, but the idea of "read the fucking manual" is something that's always irritated the piss out of me, because it's a meme not an answer. i know what it's like to really need help on something, and you've posted on the forums and you've posted on reddit and you're considering emailing some developer in Lower Bumfuck because you need help and you can't find it.
i won't name the distro, but i had issues with i3 a while back and i posted on the forum [after i had done reddit], and the person who replied was pleasant enough but the reply was basically links to the i3 documentation, and sort of a smiley emote laden reply that if i looked there, i would find the answer. i had browsed about 5 times before and it wasn't remotely clear what i was supposed to do. so i managed to condense the internal swearing i was doing into a polite reply that no, that wasn't really what i was looking for. i was looking for assistance, not the manual page. somebody else ended up replying and actually being helpful, but it pissed me off to the point of not trying that distro again.
You were trying to use a rather difficult wm. I would blame the documentation itself for not having troubleshooting tips but thats also why I always link to the archwiki. If theres something about the item in question theres generally a section on or about it. I'm going to fancy a guess at arch or gentoo?
Certainly not short.
From my end I got a manuscript rejected due to improper format, even though I followed the submission rules to the letter. so I renewed my office 365, loaded the doc and oh hell, was it ever jacked up.
Well LO has its ow. for atting stabdard. It definitely is difficult to get a doc i. LO to transfer its formatting rules to Office. They are different on a lot of levels and Office will just delete the formatting it doesn't understand. There were times where of the teacher wanted the docs emailed I would have google docs make it readable for office. Not much effort.
This message written in LibreOffice.
Lol sorry, I see what your saying, and it really comes down to, as a writer the industry standard is Microsoft office, and you have to go by there formatting. I wish to hell it was Libre or something free and coo, but sadly it isn't. and thusly, libreoffice sucks for writers. generally
I would argue that scientists are a kind of writer, and a butt ton of them use TeX.
Fun fact, the international space station has a bunch of R500's running ubuntu.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-space-station-switches-from-windows-to-linux-for-improved-reliability
Of course. Science by and large as gotten past the dark ages of proprietary OSes. CERN released some footage of their computer stuff a couple years ago, and literally the only windows computers left are a few XP machines (hopefully disconnected from the internet) controlling some arcane equipment that they can't bother to rebuild.
I am infinitely fascinated by older hardware for those reasons too. What can I make this Core Duo macbook do? What about a pentium M? Can I do imaging (I use macs for writing ISO's and writing and honestly the management tools in OSX are 20X better than gparted on every level). If I get annoyed by windows on this thing what can I make linux do?
I want to take a bunch of stuff, put a couple of anti-surgers and UPS's in front of it, plop it in a storage unit, and turn it all towards Folding@HOME. For science!
I'm amazed by people who say "Linux is never used for anything go buy a real OS". It amazes me because they know literally nothing about what they are talking about. Its the same people that are SJW's, Lobbyists, what have you, and they go on in life without actually knowing anything. One time I stated on the discord "The international spacestation ditched windows entirely" and instantly got told I was wrong by 5 people. This isn't hard to learn about!
Amazing, truely.