It’s actually kind of nice to see this as a JS developer.

Not like, “Oh wow this is neat!”

But like, “Finally the golden child, Python, also has some fucked up shit”

Oh man same!

2000s, with permission from the HS computer teacher, I was installing Red Hat on a few computers. It was ROUGH. Like, yeah we got it to show a desktop, but it was a nightmare to use anything but the basic applications. Windows just worked and after a few months, went back to that.

Only during the pandemic did I finally go Linux. Started with ElementaryOS (highly recommend for old people) and went through a dozen other flavors. What really pushed me to expert level was setting up Linux servers.

I no longer code on a Windows machine (unless I have to), and absolutely would recommend Linux to any end user. And now with Steam Deck/SteamOS, it’s only getting better. My gaming computer is still Windows, but I’m going to let it sunset. I barely use it except to play high-spec games that aren’t on Steam Deck. But that’s getting rarer and rarer.

Working in open-source, frequent issues do end up being future feature requests.

I switched to Linux a few years ago and you are not wrong.

Windows is a nightmare with directory organization.

Saved games can go:

• My Documents/
• My Documents/Games
• My Documents/My Games
• <app>/saved-games

Still waiting on approval for more resources. It’s not a priority in the company.

I swear we have like 4 runners on a raspberry pi.

Envious. It averages 15-30 mins

Losing their jobs? Uh what?

A lot of these old-fashion types are oblivious to social justice and get upset at even the thought that Institutional racism even exists, because they can point to their one black friend in tech who owns a mansion.

I used to get into arguments why master and slave was a problematic word to engineers. That’s how ignorant they are.

Those folks are dying out, especially as more diversity exists. Which is humourous because these folks will also rage about that too.

During the George Floyd Protests, Robert gives us a beautiful take that police stopping black people isn’t racist, it’s just math.

Oh nice!

Then it’s really just a bad name. Volunteer ambassador implies a lot of other responsibilities.

Other industries call it like VIP or Insiders Club. And their responsibilities for being a part of it is to also share the excitement of the product.

They do? The handful of conservatives who smoke weed libertarians I work with are absolutely using Linux.

I’m confused by this.

Certifications will absolutely get your foot in the door if you have zero experience.

Don’t think of it as “affordability”, but rather an investment in your future. In the US, you’re spending $400 to study and successfully get a cert in a few months versus $80k doing a college program.

But lets say you seriously can’t afford it at all, then the $10 udemy courses to train you is pretty good to at least know the lingo, and then a few years setting up your own self hosting.

Yep. You should absolutely know how all the pieces connect.

One IT responsibility is setting up servers. You should at least know how to get a website running off of a Linux machine at a basic level. But what we judge you on is your ability to manage and secure it.

Nah. That’s like bragging that you memorize a lot of Pi digits.

Some on the IT team in my company use vim, some use nano, some probably use notepad or something ridiculous.

It’s just a text editor and knowing vim doesn’t automatically make me assume you’re competent at anything.

Have you just been chmod 777 everything all this time?

Oh man, I ran into a dev at a meetup who proposed this solution.

And I had to do a polite, “Oh wow maybe that works but I don’t think that’s a solution in my company” because YIKES.

Hopefully God AND some with a lot of subject matter knowledge. It’ll only get worse.

Depends. It/tech is a massive space so not certain if you’re applying to tech support or like server architecture. So some specifics would be nice.

One thing to point out:

I thought I was a freaking wiz kid at Windows because I knew about the registry and how to modify settings. But then I learned a lot of the “hacks” on the internet are bad for the enterprise.

On Linux, it’s even worse, with so many blog posts recommending sudo this, and install this app that. And if you don’t have a background of WHY, you can do a lot of damage. And with AI, it’s even worse. So many bash script kiddies asking AI to write the ugliest code I ever seen.

Now that Im a senior engineer, I realize I know nothing and leave much of the IT space to trained professionals.

One obstacle may be the assets. Im not a lawyer.

But you pay for a license to use a piece of music in a commercial software. To make the game open source would imply the music is also something others can use, which wasn’t yours to give away.

Music is easy to rip out.

But think about the headaches. Is this 3D model that you purchased and slightly edited licensed in that way? Is this UI for the options page? What about this sound effect? It gets even worse with code dependencies. You paid to use this library…

It’s now this massive headache to itemize every single thing and determine the origin, as well as if it’s something you can release as part of your open source. And if you do it incorrectly, you can get sued.

Why can’t I delete System32? It’s taking up space.

Right?

This reeks of inexperience.

We lock things down because a malicious program can easily be “owned” by the user through stupid choices. And now you got viruses.

This is a way to stupid proof things. And the workaround isnt difficult, but it’s to stop people like Andrew. And so far, success.