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  • fcarneyF fcarney

    For a non developer end user I would say Linux is more complicated for some things. If for whatever reason they need to go to the command line then this can be scary and intimidating. I would say for regular OS things Linux requires more command line than Windows. As most things Windows can be done through configuration dialogs.

    For developers I would say it is about the same. I generally use the command line while developing in both OSes about the same amount. git, grep (git grep in windows), make, etc.

    For long term however, learning Linux tends to make you better at maintaining all OSes IMO. You learn to dig into the information a bit better. Maybe man pages are huge factor here.

    I prefer installing libs through package managers though. It is just so much cleaner and easier to automate.

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    @fcarney For me as developer the Windows CMD is scary! There is a reason why Microsoft finally started to improve it (after how many decades?).
    To be honest I don't want to develop on Windows ever again! I'm happy I can develop on Linux - it is way better for software development than Windows in my opinion (I was developing on Windows in the past also). Being able to use command line is one of the basic abilities of a software developer in my opinion - and here Linux/UNIX shine :-) On my Linux development machine I don't care much about fancy UI, it's simple and light XFCE with a terminal with many tabs, IDE, browser...

    https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct

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    • kshegunovK kshegunov

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmCA7EwE3rY

      @JonB said in The only Linux commands you need:

      At the risk of being shot down in flames....

      Wish granted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSkhiKPFyk ;)

      What "young mother with three kids" has time to go to a coffee shop, or even to designer-decorate her fingernails? Not the ones I know... ;-)

      Oh, don't be pathetically naive. Mothers used to go to the field and nurse there in between the hard labor, so nowadays young mothers have it real tough, so much so I'm about to cry. Many of the young mothers I've known and have observed have half their time free, sipping coffee and smoking chatting up other young mothers, while their hubby is killing himself at some dead-end job. So much for gender parity ...

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      @kshegunov said in The only Linux commands you need:

      Oh, don't be pathetically naive. Mothers used to go to the field and nurse there in between the hard labor, so nowadays young mothers have it real tough, so much so I'm about to cry. Many of the young mothers I've known and have observed have half their time free, sipping coffee and smoking chatting up other young mothers, while their hubby is killing himself at some dead-end job. So much for gender parity ...

      I was really careful about how I phrased my (potentially controversial) comment. I would not have dared to write as you have written here! :)

      So your sentiment is that young mothers should basically give birth in an Internet cafe while typing man to learn Linux commands? ;-)

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      • JonBJ JonB

        @kshegunov said in The only Linux commands you need:

        Oh, don't be pathetically naive. Mothers used to go to the field and nurse there in between the hard labor, so nowadays young mothers have it real tough, so much so I'm about to cry. Many of the young mothers I've known and have observed have half their time free, sipping coffee and smoking chatting up other young mothers, while their hubby is killing himself at some dead-end job. So much for gender parity ...

        I was really careful about how I phrased my (potentially controversial) comment. I would not have dared to write as you have written here! :)

        So your sentiment is that young mothers should basically give birth in an Internet cafe while typing man to learn Linux commands? ;-)

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        @JonB said in The only Linux commands you need:

        I was really careful about how I phrased my (potentially controversial) comment.

        Me too, I went light on you, I know you're unused to such speech.

        I would not have dared to write as you have written here! :)

        Well, east-of-eden political correctness isn't much of a thing. I call it as I see it, and as you can tell I don't like holding back.

        So your sentiment is that young mothers should basically give birth in an Internet cafe while typing man to learn Linux commands? ;-)

        No, my argument is that your argument about young mothers not having designer fingernails, or facebooking over their ipads is wrong. I'm far from the idea that people should give birth at the field, which they used to, but I also despise putting childbirth as an excuse for not doing any job/work for ages (3 years around here) and complaining what hard work raising kiddos is. It's work, no doubt, but it ain't hard labor.

        Read and abide by the Qt Code of Conduct

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        • kshegunovK kshegunov

          @JonB said in The only Linux commands you need:

          I was really careful about how I phrased my (potentially controversial) comment.

          Me too, I went light on you, I know you're unused to such speech.

          I would not have dared to write as you have written here! :)

          Well, east-of-eden political correctness isn't much of a thing. I call it as I see it, and as you can tell I don't like holding back.

          So your sentiment is that young mothers should basically give birth in an Internet cafe while typing man to learn Linux commands? ;-)

          No, my argument is that your argument about young mothers not having designer fingernails, or facebooking over their ipads is wrong. I'm far from the idea that people should give birth at the field, which they used to, but I also despise putting childbirth as an excuse for not doing any job/work for ages (3 years around here) and complaining what hard work raising kiddos is. It's work, no doubt, but it ain't hard labor.

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          @kshegunov said in The only Linux commands you need:

          No, my argument is that your argument about young mothers not having designer fingernails, or facebooking over their ipads is wrong. I'm far from the idea that people should give birth at the field, which they used to, but I also despise putting childbirth as an excuse for not doing any job/work for ages (3 years around here) and complaining what hard work raising kiddos is. It's work, no doubt, but it ain't hard labor.

          you have to see that in relation.
          The education methods on how to raise once children have changed drastically. People used to tie their offspring to poles in their garden while they worked.

          The hands off, friend > parent style that is more common theses days, makes raising your child a much harder task.


          Be aware of the Qt Code of Conduct, when posting : https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct


          Q: What's that?
          A: It's blue light.
          Q: What does it do?
          A: It turns blue.

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            @kshegunov said in The only Linux commands you need:

            No, my argument is that your argument about young mothers not having designer fingernails, or facebooking over their ipads is wrong. I'm far from the idea that people should give birth at the field, which they used to, but I also despise putting childbirth as an excuse for not doing any job/work for ages (3 years around here) and complaining what hard work raising kiddos is. It's work, no doubt, but it ain't hard labor.

            you have to see that in relation.
            The education methods on how to raise once children have changed drastically. People used to tie their offspring to poles in their garden while they worked.

            The hands off, friend > parent style that is more common theses days, makes raising your child a much harder task.

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            @J-Hilk said in The only Linux commands you need:

            People used to tie their offspring to poles in their garden while they worked.

            Those were the days! :) Sigh....

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            • J.HilkJ J.Hilk

              @kshegunov said in The only Linux commands you need:

              No, my argument is that your argument about young mothers not having designer fingernails, or facebooking over their ipads is wrong. I'm far from the idea that people should give birth at the field, which they used to, but I also despise putting childbirth as an excuse for not doing any job/work for ages (3 years around here) and complaining what hard work raising kiddos is. It's work, no doubt, but it ain't hard labor.

              you have to see that in relation.
              The education methods on how to raise once children have changed drastically. People used to tie their offspring to poles in their garden while they worked.

              The hands off, friend > parent style that is more common theses days, makes raising your child a much harder task.

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              @J-Hilk said in The only Linux commands you need:

              you have to see that in relation.

              I do, and I specifically noted the relation in my last sentence.

              The education methods on how to raise once children have changed drastically. People used to tie their offspring to poles in their garden while they worked.

              Not where I come from. My grandma was left caring for the infants while her parents were working, because having something to eat is more important than being there for your kid all the time, the first one is needed to live through. My grandfather was sent to collect the straw for the animals (alone!) with their mule after he returned from school (1-4th grade). I don't claim this is right, again, it's how things were. So forgive me for not getting teary when a mother of new complains their partner works too much and she's left with all the child care ... I can hardly believe that the guy wants to work 10 or more hours, but I imagine bringing food and shelter, and ipads and designer fingernails is deemed important enough.

              I realize I must come as a chauvinistic pig, but really I'm not sexist, I just hate hypocrisy. The current state of the debate is that women are discriminated because of their gender, and that thicks me off. It used to be the case, but it isn't anymore. Historically men have taken the most dangerous and most demanding jobs, and they still do, due to simple biology. We are stronger and faster (due to hormones) and after we seed the field, excuse the vulgarity, we are much more expendable. So when I hear that women are misrepresented in say managerial position (which in my conservative country counterintuitively they aren't, as a matter of fact we have one of the best scores in that regard in the EU), I can't help but wonder why the activists aren't concerned that women are misrepresented in construction jobs or welding, or metallurgy or mining. You can't have it both ways, sorry. And don't get me wrong, I don't defend discrimination, but from an equation of a billion variables some people have picked one and made conclusions. Conclusions that are wrong and that have inevitably crept in into policy and law.
              Equal representation is myth, a chimera, that's not equity, it's equality, and Animal Farm makes a great example of what equality looks like. Equal opportunity on the other hand is ultimately desirable and right. And by the way it's already the law. What people should realize is that left to their own devices, people, men and women, are ultimately free to make their own different choices.

              The hands off, friend > parent style that is more common theses days, makes raising your child a much harder task.

              You can't be a friend with your child, sorry. Friends implies equality and you're not really equal with your offspring, you're their parent.

              Read and abide by the Qt Code of Conduct

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                Linux commands -> Windows commands suck -> social justice -> Animal Farm

                Makes complete sense! LOL
                Talk about organic conversations.

                C++ is a perfectly valid school of magic.

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                  Talk about organic conversations.

                  Yeah, you guys are easily triggered :) I only meant to say computers are not just for nerds anymore. I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition...

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                  • Chris KawaC Chris Kawa

                    Talk about organic conversations.

                    Yeah, you guys are easily triggered :) I only meant to say computers are not just for nerds anymore. I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition...

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                    @Chris-Kawa
                    Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition....

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                    • JonBJ JonB

                      @Chris-Kawa
                      Nobody expects The Spanish Inquisition....

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                      It wouldn't be worth its salt as an Inquisition otherwise, would it? :)

                      @Chris-Kawa said in The only Linux commands you need:

                      Yeah, you guys are easily triggered

                      Yep, sorry about that. But my bud walked head first into that one, voluntarily no less.

                      Read and abide by the Qt Code of Conduct

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                        THAT IS IT! GET THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

                        C++ is a perfectly valid school of magic.

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                          I don't really want to derail this any further 😉

                          Talk about organic conversations.

                          So let me just say:
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                          Be aware of the Qt Code of Conduct, when posting : https://forum.qt.io/topic/113070/qt-code-of-conduct


                          Q: What's that?
                          A: It's blue light.
                          Q: What does it do?
                          A: It turns blue.

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                          • fcarneyF fcarney

                            THAT IS IT! GET THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

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                            @fcarney said in The only Linux commands you need:

                            THAT IS IT! GET THE COMFY CHAIR!!!

                            No popcorn?

                            sad

                            Read and abide by the Qt Code of Conduct

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