Don’t worry about not being able to work because of a bad update

Never happened to me in 20+ years… I seriously wonder what some of y’all have been doing that this is a major concern.

No

Yeah - this is very strange to me since it seems like that’s the bigger issue. Everything outside of $HOME is managed by a package manager of sorts. But all the stuff in $HOME is where the mess happens. distrobox does let you set an alternative home dir which is good. It seems like they should at least specify a separate XDG_CONFIG_HOME by default - then I could use my login scripts but application configs (for well-behaved applications at least) would be separated.

I never did like the CDE style window decorations, but I do rather miss the old school docks.

Yeah. You’re talking about 0.0001% of the users though. For everyone else it’s “I don’t want to pay for this”.

That’s the oss model.

It can be, sure. I prefer garbage collectors but I’m not doing systems programming.

It forces you to be careful in the way it wants you to be careful. Which is fine, but it makes it a strange beastie for anyone not used to it.

I think something is lying to you.

“Toxic” was the correct word choice, thanks.

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You don’t get the immersion of a new OS when you use wsl though. Which is fine if you just want some Linux compatibility for things like docker, but if you want the whole “desktop experience” then a VM is a better option. Either Hyper-V or VirtualBox will give you that with reasonable performance.

I read the question. I’m the person who’s annoyed with the daily “hey guys which distro do you use” BS.

Great question. Right up there with “what’s the best movie” or “which meal should I order”. Maybe you want to ask which editor is the best too?

You know how many editor plugins I need to work with json? None.

Fuck Java, seriously

Toxic…

You can find a lot of good work doing Java.

There’s a spec for json with comments. It’s better than yaml in every way.

Jesus, just what I want to do with the devops team - spend a few weeks standardizing on an editor and configuring them to edit yaml.

YAML mixes 2 and 4 spaces all the time. Python scripts don’t run if you write this kind of crap.

Sure it does. You only need to be consistent within a block. Python’s syntax is ridiculous and solves problems that basically don’t exist.

All of my java/kotlin/rust/etc. code is trivially well formatted and can be done by my editor. Moving code blocks is trivial. Refactoring is easier when I didn’t need to hand -format the code just to make it work.

Maybe you’re thinking of Ansible?