@angdraug@mastodon.social @kyle A good chunk of the pain 20yrs ago, IMO, was from finding one application that was great for the task you needed it to do only... it was then the ONLY app you could use that made sounds (to call back the pain of having 9000 different sound layers possible at the turn of the century). Things are much better now, and I seldom find myself deep in /proc trying to figure anything out anymore. I'm glad I had that experience for when truly outstanding problems do crop up today.
@ajmartinez @angdraug@mastodon.social I think a lot of folks on other platforms still assume Linux on the desktop is the same as it was a decade ago when they switched to OSX and aren't aware of all of the advances.
@kyle @angdraug@mastodon.social heh I remember having the FujiP out in public circa 2007 running Debian w/ XFCE and having someone want to know which Mac I had and how much it cost...
I never feel "held back" by LoTD. It's generally that I feel constrained to the point of being unproductive if I find myself in the unfortunate position of having to actually use my work laptop on Win10.