sauce: System Engineer

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    4 months ago

    As I make my way through terrible news stories on Lemmy, this is the first thing to make me laugh out loud. Both because I understand the pedantry and because I spent so much of my life wishing I had a gf.

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    4 months ago

    just “linux” in daily public speech is definitely the way to go branding-wise. no random pedestrian is gonna know what you’re talking about if you say GNU or Kubuntu or whatever (and they probably won’t know “Linux” either, but the chance is marginally higher)

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    4 months ago

    I was that guy, but I gave up and just call it Linux, since there’s really no other name you can call it at that point. GNU/Linux is as correct as Systemd/Linux or Electron/Linux (for these quite a few VScode/Spotify/Discord/Other Electron app enjoyers).

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      4 months ago

      I used to think like that, but now I’m on the fence since I’ve started working much more closely with packaging. Calling it “linux” is actually kind of harmful for adoption. Devs that claim their software works on Linux mislead people into thinking it works on any Linux distro, which is rarely true. Most of the time, those devs only test on Ubuntu and no other distro.

      Maybe when Snaps finally die out and Flatpak emerges as the one true standard for desktop apps, then that problem will go away once and for all. Until then, I think we should normalize distinguishing Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc as separate “operating systems” instead of “distros”, which is an unnecessary and misleading term anyways.

    • asudox@lemmy.asudox.devOP
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      4 months ago

      The manga? It’s called System Engineer, also known as SE.

      The meme, I don’t know. I just found it in my downloads directory.

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    4 months ago

    What’s the point of having multitasking abilities if you don’t use them?