Small thing about filesystem dialogs. In file open/save dialogs some apps group directories at the top and others mix them in alphabetically with files. My preference is for them to be grouped, but being consistent either way would be nice.
Yes, Mint Cinnamon. Weird combination of names tho, I don’t even want to think about combining those flavors.
I’m happy with Linux Mint so far (2 mos in)
Gmail is web-based, you can use it with Firefox. For that matter Linux doesn’t bind you to Firefox either, you can use Chrome and other browsers. I never used office 360 or Libre, I just use google docs.
update: after a month of Mint I’ve had no problems at all uploading code to ESP32, and it seems about 50% faster than on Windows. Uploads just work - it’s like a breath of fresh air.
IN CASE OF FIRE:
1. git commit
2. git push
3. exit building
I remember having a somewhat difficult transition from a keyboard editor to Word, Notepad, etc in the 90s. I didn’t use EMACS but a similar one called EDT. I had used it so much I never thought about which keys to press, it was more like playing the piano - my fingers knew how to do what my brain wanted. Moving a mouse around and watching the cursor are additional mental activities you don’t need with keystroke editors. This is one reason many Linux users are still hardcore command-line users. They get stuff done a lot faster.
That’s a bizarre glitch I never would have known to look for - thanks!
Pasting this right into my project doc. Thanks so much!
Thank you, that’s massively helpful! Pasting your comment into my ESP32 project notes so when I soon move to Linux I can remember to figure out the udev rule and jtags.
I… I… oops, sorry.
Can anybody comment on their experience using Arduino and ESP with Linux? Especially does Linux handle COM ports better than Windows? There’s a seemingly immortal problem of COM ports becoming unusable until you go into Device Manager and uninstall them (again and again) - and if that doesn’t work, reboot Windows. I experience this less often now than say 5 or 6 years ago, and sometimes it’s my fault, but jeez.
Longtime software dev here. I complain about code bugs all the time - I’m like, who the fuck wrote and tested this piece of crap?
It’s been said that indecisiveness and perfectionism are liberal weaknesses, and decisiveness and being willing to ignore imperfections for the sake of the team are conservative strengths. I think Michael Moore put it best… Liberals say, “What should we do about dinner? I don’t know… do you want to go out? I dunno, do you? Well, if you do. Okay, where should we go? I dunno, where do you wanna go?” A conservative slams his hand on the table and says, “Get in the car, we’re goin’ to the Sizzler!”
So many other things are also non-binary, but people insist that not being 100% on their side means you’re a million percent on the extreme opposite hateful wrong side.
If your computer is mainly a toy I really DGAF what you put up with to use it.
Not a boring story at all, in fact it’s Awesome! It’s been so long since I touched VMS I would probably be lost now, but I wrote tons of apps and was a sysadmin for a couple years - which I really enjoyed, as 90% of that job was running backups and installing updates, leaving plenty of time to just play around. I missed writing apps, so I made a visual status monitor that let me look at running processes and pause, restart or kill them. My last exposure to VMS was when I worked at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in 2007 or 8 - a group there still had a VaxCluster running, but I never worked on it. Today there is still OpenVMS, mostly run on emulators by retro computing hobbyists I think.
I made a comment about how easy it was to learn VMS was (an 80s/90s OS). How do I print a file? I’ll try PRINT. Okay, that works. How do I make 6 copies? PRINT /COPIES=6. Great! But how do I print to a file? I’ll try PRINT /OUTPUT=filename. Well whaddya know!
I loved that OS like a brother. Sadly it eventually went the way of every proprietary system.
Back in the ancient pre-Internet days I worked for many years with a system called VMS made by Digital Equipment Corp (aka DEC), now long gone. VMS was a dream to use - every command and option was an actual word, and you could abbreviate commands and options any way you wanted, As long as you were unambiguous, it would figure out what you meant. So easy to learn, and felt so natural. Based on that alone I thought VMS would become more popular than Unix, with its cryptic commands, and those single-letter options that are sometimes the first letter of something obvious and other times seem totally random. But internally VMS wasn’t structured as well - for example, piping output from one command to another was possible, but it wasn’t geared for that like Unix is. There was also no free version of VMS, and it only ran on DEC hardware, so not that many people even knew about it. The dawn of Linux for PCs was essentially the nail in the coffin for VMS. But I do miss that CLI.
The term “dependency hell” reminds me of “DLL hell” Windows devs used to refer to. Something must have changed around 2000 because I remember an article announcing, “No more DLL hell.” but I don’t remember what the change was.