As a ~25 year Linux user, I am absolutely a gorgeous donkey

Sure, but there’s also no reason to make the post 3+ times in the first place

Why duplicate this thread? There’s now at least 3 copies…

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck

It’s a generally applicable lesson in why it’s NOT a good idea to change things for the sake of it though (chesterton’s fence, but where most of the actual bits of fence are invisible).

Also it’s building on top of existing fragility (the thin pillar below), and only making it worse

I don’t think the focus should be on the average current Linux user. Guaranteed that if Linux gained substantial market share, the fraction of tinkerers would dwindle substantially

I guess enshittification has been moved off the backlog then…

On par for Microsoft software in general. Seems like every week I discover new bugs in outlook.com…

The developer who was there when I started my last job believed that libraries should be avoided at all costs. He wrote a CSV reader from scratch in python. It didn’t work in many edge cases. He didn’t like it when I pointed that out. Nor when I showed him that his “better way” in another case was more than 10x slower using a profiler… At least he was using git, but the git history was full of long series of identical commit messages unrelated to code changes, because PyCharm has an option to reuse the previous commit message on a new commit…

He eventually quit and I spent 3 years refactoring his garbage before we finally had a tech team who could take over (I’m a scientist, with self taught coding skills). Pretty sure even after we had a tech team of 7 if was still a better coder than most, purely because I was interested in how coding works, and trying to understand underlying concepts.

That problem seems tiny relative to the convenience that symlinks offer…

Sorry, I didn’t follow any of that… What is the plan 9 solution? I searched, but didn’t see anything obvious

What would have been a better solution?

Maybe we should not listen to those people

Does anyone else think that browsers implementing every single feature of an operating system is a dumb idea?

Thank you for explaining in detail what I meant by the very first part of my comment.

Not quite what you want, but in dolphin you can open a terminal with F4, and then just type sudo deb -i <package.deb> and your password. Pretty quick.

I’ve been using it full time for 21 years, and dual boot for years before that. Early on it definitely took up a bit of time, but that’s mostly because I was interested in breaking things and learning to fix them. Even 10-15 years ago I don’t think I would have spent more than a few hours a month fixing things. These days it’s a few hours a year, and that’s only when I start messing around with something in a careless way.