I’m not jumbling anything together. The Linux community is full of toxic, elitist edgelords that expose various behaviours which are entirely uninviting to beginners. Those behaviours are also very annoying for people like me who want stuff answered without responses that sound belittling or like a challenge of ones skills.

Of course there are users who seem incapable of reading a manual and even pointing them to the passage with “you can find more information here, it should answer your question. If that doesn’t, feel free to explain further and I’ll gladly help you” nets a question about exactly what’s written in the passage. My way of dealing users unwilling to read is not to respond, not RTFM.

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I’m sorry this dude has to go through this shit. If I could, I would help, but there just isn’t any time. I’m fighting NixOS and just getting things to work for me. There isn’t even time to get it working for non-technical folk, let alone disabled folk.

My blame goes to the gate keepers who want to keep linux an elitist space. The people that want things to be hard so that they can feel superior and laugh at others who can’t do what they do. The people that unironically say RTFM.

Linux could be such a great distro for normal users but the very first step of installing it is already a hurdle for many people. And yet many linux users recommend dumb shit like Arch to beginners or tell them to buy (and support) non-Linux hardware vendors instead of funnelling money into the linux ecosystem.

If the majority of Linux users who could actually invested monetarily into opensource and the linux ecosystem, and the Linux Foundation invested more than 2% of it 200 million annually into the kernel and advocacy, maybe things would look different. But it seems like we’re a long way from the linux community actually being welcoming and self-funding. We’ll have to wait for corporate sponsors like Valve to actually make the OS popular and worthy of interest to app developers and accessibility advocates before the community realises that being popular does come with more benefits than negatives.

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With the current conservative government Germany has, the same that fucked up the country for 15 years kept the country “stable” for 15 years, it sounds like their promise for river internet. What’s German river penetration like nowadays? 5%? After 20 years of “investment”?

Lol. It’s more likely that the US will get a grip and Microsoft or even Apple can swoop in an sell their crap to politicians.

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Thanks for the response. So there’s a bunch of stuff to do myself but also surprisingly enough stuff for an editor.

I’ll take a deeper look at it.

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After reading this, I’m kinda curious how it compares to JetBrains. It’s becoming more and more VSCode like and I’m not a fan.

Does Kate support or have plugins for renaming symbols, presenting documentation, formatting files, showing code diagnostics beyond syntax errors (for example code smells or so), have AI integration (explain this, rewrite this, replace this with prompt output, …), specific framework integrations (reactjs, django, actix, …), and stuff like expanding macros in C/C++ and Rust?

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Wouldn’t be surprising if this were done on purpose by the fruit company. All the more exciting when it will be overcome and they’ll have to find another wrench to throw.

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How does this compare to Notion? Can it be used as a knowledge management system? I ask because I see highlights and notes.

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Thank you for the update. Now I have to check what ccTLDs and gTLDs even are! I was under the impression all TLDs were under the purview of ICANN. Learned something new again. I have a few domains myself and was already bitten by the free TLDs that suddenly disappeared from one day to the next. That was a ride.

Good luck. I know how annoying switching domain names can be, especially if you have multiple!

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Not a surprise for those with containerised workloads. Mac is a nightmare for that. Every single dev team with mac that I’ve been on has struggled with it. Heard all these things and more:

• We can’t use Docker Desktop due to licensing!
• podman doesn’t work, but colima does
• npm install takes forever!
• Why can’t it find the docker socket?
• This only works on x86
• The port-forwarding didn’t work
• XYZ works in the dev-container but not when deployed

Recreating a problem you encountered with your container in a x86 linux VM in the cloud on a mac with apple silicon is no fun either.

And good luck with custom hardware on a mac. Working from home with stuff that was plug and play on linux simply refused to work on mac. Ergonomic mice, keyboards, USB-C docks, high-quality webcams, USB headsets… Either you’re in the Apple ecosystem or you’re gonna have a bad time.

If an employer doesn’t allow me to install linux on my dev machine, then I move on.