@codemonkeymike
1- Installing it is difficult and scary
2- You can't just "install Linux" - there are choices to be made (distro, SE) that you don't even know how to make
3- It's harder to find the software you're used to, and know how to install it
1- and 2- can be mitigated by using LiveCD to try things, installing it on that old computer that we all have lying around, and just going with default Ubuntu. 3- takes a lot of getting used to.
I wrote a status update! https://kevinguillaumond.com/en/2024/04/status-update-april-2024/ There's no guarantee that there'll ever be another one, but it's nice to have been able to spend some time writing #opensource code this month :)
@Marv Ohhh I just assumed it wasn't possible!
Hello from my #Librem5 docked to my new #Nexdock360! I really feel like I'm living in the future here.
@kyle I'm on Mastodon too! Mostly reading for now.. It was great talking to you :)
I received my #Librem5 today! Ordered in July 2019. Exciting times!
@brainblasted Real question: why are the flathub versions better?
@toddsundsted @kyle In my view, software engineering isn't writing code, it's translating business requirements into something a computer can understand. It's just that we currently use code to achieve that. Maybe our natural path forward will eventually make us "robot psychologists", as in Asimov's Foundation
@protonmail Thanks for doing the right thing!
@tbernard Confluence...
@dusnm And people who don't have a data plan. I visited NYC recently and ran into that problem several times.
@romanmutin nitter.net, eble? https://nitter.net/about
@craftyguy !!! good point. I'll double-check that; maybe I gave up too early there.
@craftyguy git repo checked out in a subfolder like ~/.dotfiles + custom script to create/update the right symlinks? That's what I'm working towards. I tried making the home folder itself the git repo (as explained in https://drewdevault.com/2019/12/30/dotfiles.html for example) but it doesn't really work because ~/.gitignore is picked up by every other git repo anywhere under ~/
@BrodieOnLinux It's a bit like looking at Mozilla isn't it 🙁
Software Engineer - Vancouver, Canada