Except you do expect a tomato farm to have the actual tomatoes, instead of just tomato seeds, bags of dirt and fertilizer, and a note telling you how to use them to grow your own tomatoes.
Definitely not wrong. As someone who works nowhere near the tech sector who has attempted to dabble in Linux, that initial learning curve is just too high. I don’t have the time to dedicate to that, I have other interests in my life
For what it’s worth, Linux mint was pretty simple to install. I think Linux folks tend to sneer at it because it just works without the crazy headaches and hassles we associate with Linux.
(I finally tried Mint rather than pay for windows 11. And as much as we all hate ai, it was really useful when I had a quick weird question during my install.)
The beauty of it is that once you work out how Linux and self hosting works, you won’t have time for anything else. So the cliff face learning curve is to dissuade the filthy casuals.
Not even Linux, the READMEs of a lot of code repositories are sometimes made for people who already know what it is, but seem alien to anyone just trying to understand “does this codebase help with my use-case?”
My experience is the opposite. Open a project’s website, it’s full of marketing talk where I can’t find what the project does in a minute or several minutes. Open Github instead, the readme starts with “this thing is for doing X with Y under Z circumstances”. These days I mostly skip sites and go straight to Github.
He’s not wrong
He’s absolutely wrong, you don’t show up to a tomato farm and wonder where the pizza is.
If people say “make your own pizza” and then point you towards the tomato farm, then the reaction is understandable
Except you do expect a tomato farm to have the actual tomatoes, instead of just tomato seeds, bags of dirt and fertilizer, and a note telling you how to use them to grow your own tomatoes.
Definitely not wrong. As someone who works nowhere near the tech sector who has attempted to dabble in Linux, that initial learning curve is just too high. I don’t have the time to dedicate to that, I have other interests in my life
For what it’s worth, Linux mint was pretty simple to install. I think Linux folks tend to sneer at it because it just works without the crazy headaches and hassles we associate with Linux.
(I finally tried Mint rather than pay for windows 11. And as much as we all hate ai, it was really useful when I had a quick weird question during my install.)
The beauty of it is that once you work out how Linux and self hosting works, you won’t have time for anything else. So the cliff face learning curve is to dissuade the filthy casuals.
Not even Linux, the READMEs of a lot of code repositories are sometimes made for people who already know what it is, but seem alien to anyone just trying to understand “does this codebase help with my use-case?”
My experience is the opposite. Open a project’s website, it’s full of marketing talk where I can’t find what the project does in a minute or several minutes. Open Github instead, the readme starts with “this thing is for doing X with Y under Z circumstances”. These days I mostly skip sites and go straight to Github.
Maybe you need the sites instead, idk.