Interesting… If anything, the main reasons I don’t live like a total slob are my wife and children, not the other way around. Don’t get me wrong, I could still do much more for my health, I don’t eat particularly well, I should do more cardio work, etc. However, I’m fairly certain I just wouldn’t have that intrinsic motivation if it wasn’t for their presence.

Some of the crap I had to do back in the late 00s to get wifi, sleep and power management even barely working on some machines felt like the hardest thing at the time. I wonder how I’d fare with those issues today, 17 years later, knowing quite a bit more about the underlying OS and working with the OS daily… I don’t know that I’d qualify that as difficult more than it was extremely tedious and a bunch of trial and error of configuration options I didn’t know anything about.

If we’re talking about modern day… not so much honestly. btrfs snapshots saved my ass a couple of times, the rare issue I encounter I just rollback and wait for an upstream fix, and the rest I typically ignore or use something else. Everything tends to run quite smooth for me as a general rule, though.

If we want to keep going with car comparisons, I’ll try to make it illustrate my point once again - do those people happen to learn that R doesn’t mean “Really fast” by being snarkily told to RTFM by a car enthusiast or they aren’t a real driver?

I was specifically addressing the “Linux users need to RTFM or they aren’t Linux users” affirmation. It’s not defending ignorance to point out that it’s gatekeepey as hell.

I’ve also helped plenty of technical folks install Linux on newer hardware, and some had difficulties and I had to provide support more than once. One of my grandparents understood Ubuntu/Unity immediately, the other had trouble. Anecdotes don’t say much.

Feel free to point out where I was “offended”. I thought this was merely a discussion, as these communities encourage to have.

As for what was actually said, even re-reading the comment I was answering to, your interpretation of what was said is still not what I’m reading, at all. Quoting verbatim: “You aren’t a Linux user if you don’t like to RTFM”. How is this not gatekeeping? You use Linux, you’re a Linux user, that’s all.

Yeah, fair. IMHO, he’s just really prone to overplaying in general, but it’s also expected in the genre he plays, and what I expect of him most of the time, I guess.

Rudess is a prodigy, but virtuosity constantly plays at the limit of overplaying. This stuff works really well for prog, but a bit less for rap, I think as well. By the way, that song was Jay Z’s, featuring Alicia Keys. It was still a fun as hell take on the song for fans of the genre haha.

Justin is insanely creative. All SP members are, to be fair lol. The last chorus, with that super dry funky lead tone, is just incredible.

I’m so gonna regret asking… what dude? 🥲

GitHub is a site that hosts git repositories and provides tooling around it (Actions for automation, Pull Requests/Forks for collaboration, etc).

Git is a version tracking tool. It’s meant to track a history of changes across a set of files. That history and files and config is known as a repository. You don’t need GitHub or any of these sites to use git.

Git has a lot of really fancy and/or almost magical functionality to manipulate said history, but at the simplest level, you can manage a git repo with a handful of commands.

Indeed!