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Developer appreciation time! (thelemmy.club)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Meme in three parts: 1: "I'm new to Linux, How am I doing this: …?" 2: Guy (Enthusiasts offering help) turning around looking at a good-looking woman (Cryptic CLI commands) while his apparent girlfriend (Accessible, user-friendly GUI tools) is looking at him like she's going to explode in a second 3: Very sad cat in front of a laptop looking at the camera (Devs of underappreciated GUI tools)
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[–] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children) 
basic_task_list = ['copy and paste', 'install package', 'type', 'keyboard', 'read and write' ]

for basic_task in basic_task_list:
    print(f"""
        Newbies can't {basic_task}.
        They never {basic_task} in windows.
        Windows  has replaced {basic_task} with copilot, this is what linux needs to do to compete.

        How will linux ever hope to attract windows user if it still maintains this ancient hacker 1337xor tools like  {basic_task}?

        Users just want to turn on computer and watch it do computance - how does linux not get this?
    """)
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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What's easier to support?

    "Ok, open app commandX,
    now click on the button labeled Y.. It's just there, just below your mouse cur... oh now you've moved your mouse... no, not there, it's more to the left, up a bit... down a bit, it's labeled Y. Third one from the top.
    Yes, that's the one, now click it.
    ok, in this pop up you type "super secret code thing',
    no, capitalization doesn't matter.
    Yes. I'll spell it "s u p e r {space} s e c r e t {space} c o" what do you mean, you don't have a T on your keyboard? "

    Or. "Open up the terminal and type this code: commandX --CodeY This will do XYZ. After it's done, can you tell me the error it says on the screen?"

    But yes, I agree, the GUI looks nicer.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Exactly. You can tell someone to type a command, and ask for the output. Otherwise you're spending 90% of your time asking someone to explain what they see, and searching for buttons that just move around from week to week.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I dgaf about support. (i'm naturally perky).

    Back in dos there was a systemic encouragement to users to at least learn something about a computer. Nowadays windows apologists seem to relish how much it dumbs down computers, (or any over supported system).

    They won't learn to ride the bike until someone removes the stabiliser brackets - and Gates is one of the cunts who figured out that he makes more cash by welding them on.

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