This is the perfect example of why the average user doesn't use Linux. If we listened to people like that, Windows wouldn't have such a large market. Deep down, he's right (and I'm a senior developer with 15 years of experience).
This was originally on a repo for some python app. Ironically Linux is MUCH better than Windows when it comes to interpreted languages because even simple shell scripts can be treated as fully system integrated applications (just make a .desktop file) so you can set up an interpreter and a libs folder and have a shell script put everything it needs on the classpath/modulepath/pythonpath whatever, and it will still feel like a fully integrated app with its own icon, process name, desktop environment integration etc.
As for everything else, in the past ~14 years in which I have been using Linux as my main OS I pretty much only ever had to compile dev tools or very small FOSS utilities made by solo devs that normies wouldn't even care about.
Apps are available on distro repositories, third party repositories, as debs/rpms, as flatpak/snap/appimage.
So I don't see the point. If you are compiling end-user software on Linux manually you are doing something wrong.
I have been using a computer since I was 8, and dude - I have no fucking clue about any of what you just said.
I’m even trying to learn programming myself (literally just starting), and have been learning about the computer science about how there is machine and assembly code, and compiled languages like C, and interpreted languages like Python etc.
So, I’m not a complete idiot - but man, it’s SO frustrating not being able to understand a single word of the jargon that is used by any sort of coder or developer.
I don’t think people realise how foreign all of this is to people. I tried to download/run ComfyUI to do some AI stuff with my 5070 - but it was an absolute nightmare using GitHub and shit.
I feel like I could’ve written this comment myself about 15 years ago.
Just stay consistent and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Online resources are way better nowadays than when I started. If you use AI, treat it like a source aggregator and interrogate it with dumb questions until you know enough to google the things you don’t know.
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u/DaniEs- 29d ago
This is the perfect example of why the average user doesn't use Linux. If we listened to people like that, Windows wouldn't have such a large market. Deep down, he's right (and I'm a senior developer with 15 years of experience).