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I am perfectly happy with Windows 10 and want to throw my work Linux PC out the nearest window almost every day because of Linux package dependency hell.

I work on different application and are pretty much forced to setup a specific Linux VM for each one to not have package dependency problems.

I never had that problem developing on Windows.


I work on Linux every day and wish it was Windows. Linux is package dependency hell. Switching to working on a different application I am often forced to setup a new VM to even build it without breaking other apps I am working on. I never had that problem on Windows.

It is unreasonable to expect that a tool built for proving correctness (a very hard problem) somehow should also be able to simulate performance and everything else somebody might need.

A hammer is great for certain things but I don't expect it to make good coffee. I use other tools for that. However that doesn't make hammers deficient.


Removing X from a distribution, and making it hard to switch from Wayland to X, makes things really difficult for developers such as myself who is maintaining 30+ year old X applications.

Thanks. That sounds like a similar situation to me. I am mid 50s.


Yeah I might have to accept that it is what it is. It is hard though.


Yep I have seen an optician and an eye doctor. And I did a head/eye scan as well. Apparently my eye is otherwise perfectly fine and healthy.


I have friends in the games industry. Stunningly bad and arrogant leadership seems to be the norm.

Make a random dude (it is usually a dude) a manager in a games company and suddenly he thinks he is a brilliant game designer with all the right answers overruling more experienced people.

Until the game flops and he is fired (or not if a good friend of the CEO).

Rince and repeat until bankruptcy.


"more affordable" but still very expensive.


90% of the code I commit is code generated. No AI required.


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