IMO web based bug trackers are overkill for personal projects. A workflow based ticketing system with an external interface adds a lot of unnecessary overhead unless you want users to be able to submit bugs, and even then, email works pretty well.
IMO web based bug trackers are overkill for personal projects.
I don’t think so. This fixme-in-the-file wouldn’t suit me well for example, because a lot of my projects are not file-based, and also because I regularly find myself writing lengthy comments under my gitea tickets to preserve how did I do something, or when something doesn’t work to record the symptoms and what I tried to fix it, etc.
Gitea is probably not the best tool either for this, but it’s quite good, and to me objectively better: all notes (issues and their comments) are timestamped and those can’t be modified by mistake, tag support, several other aspects for categorization…
If you’re not working with files, then sure. For coders, putting tickets in the sourcecode enforces locality, and it also preserves history… because most people use a VCS.
But it sounds like you’re using it as a journalling system, and that has different needs.
What really gets me is, there are plenty of meaty and cheesy flavoured crisps out there that manage without it perfectly well (many not even intentionally vegan), so they really have no excuse!
Windows works (more or less) out of the box. Linux, doesn’t work out of the box, every single thing you want to install takes 5x as long as it would on Windows. Gaming is still a mess. I’m not arguing that Linux isn’t more capable with less bloatware and shit, but it’s definitely not something your average computer user could ever wrap their head around.
I would posit that perhaps your experience with linux was negatively impacted by a (or multiple) difficult distros. There are many distro’s, of which I’d recommend endeavourOS, that work ‘out of the box’ and install things extremely quickly. I agree that the majority of distro’s haven’t reached ‘general user viability’ yet, but it’s folly to continue to promote such anti-consumer operating systems and software(s) as those produced by companies like Microsoft and Apple.
These companies produce a nice front-facing software that has a generally unreliable and easily broken back end with multiple security holes that are often left unpatched and unnoticed until a nation state has the opportunity to use the zero day as an attack vector. In no way am I saying ‘open source solves all’ because even the AUR has serious issues with oversight, but the requirement for education of the userbase and promoting open source values is certainly more important than embracing anti-consumer companies and practices to the detriment of not only the current general user but several generations of users as well.
The internet is slowly getting more and more restricted and as it becomes so the only ones to benefit are technological oligopolies. We’re in the era of tech-barons now, and it’s vastly more unequal than when oil barons were in power and that’s not something I’d ever expected to see in my lifetime and I doubt it was something our grandparents or great grandparents expected either.
Freedoms being eroded from virtual reality having the impact of eroding freedoms in reality as well
Haha, I don’t think they can get inside the bed base, thankfully - but I’m very familiar with the 3am play-combat. There’s normally one or two sleeping on our bed at night, and there’s sometimes a competition for position. The one pictured is quite skilled at “Assassin’s Creed” style aerial takedowns off the top of the wardrobe, onto his poor unsuspecting siblings sleeping near our feet.
Oh man, that reminds me of when I was a kid, one of our cats had babies and decided to drag them all under my mom's bed. They ended up tearing a hole in the box spring, and there'd occasionally be an entire litter of kittens running and pouncing around in there at all hours. Drove my mom crazy.
if I have the time and effort I’ll heat the knife on one of my burners for a minute, but usually do I just microwave the whole jar for 15 seconds on low
Yeah, then you’ll have 1000 other problems but not one with task manager. The best task manager in Linux is still htop because Linux doesn’t like making GUIs that are reliable and functional. Last time I was using fedora, the mouse settings GUI wouldn’t work and I had to set mouse speed in my bashrc.
Real talk though, how long ago was that? Linux has been making improvements at a blistering pace. If it’s been a while, I’d recommend giving it another try soon.
in 2021. In 2022 I tried again with Fedora and KDE but I have an Nvidia GPU and this was around the time they just switched the default to Wayland which resulted in the liveCD hanging forever. Didn’t even get to install it again. I used to use Linux as a desktop from 2008 to 2014 but stopped because things just kept breaking on me and it was wasting my time. Eventually, my work switched to Windows, I switched to working at home and it didn’t make sense to maintain a Linux desktop that every time I booted it up, something new was broken. I’ve been checking every year into Linux since.
Sorry but in my field 70% of the people use Nvidia. So, yeah, Linux doesn’t support my workflow, Linux is bad. The end result is the OS doesn’t work properly. I don’t care how it needs to work. I need to know that it will work. If someone is causing it not to work, that’s on Linux still because the end result is still that Linux doesn’t work. On top of that, X11, Nvidia, and KDE worked just fine but Fedora rolled on ahead with releasing Wayland as the default when clearly it wasn’t ready.
Even outside of the Nvidia drivers through, since they now have published open-source drivers, there are still tons of issues with Linux as a whole. Multiple times I’ve seen basic GUIs either not work or not exist. A great example of this is: How do you figure out what driver the system is using without using the command line? Not just video card drivers which some distros have finally made GUIs for. No, like my mouse drivers, or the random Watcom tablet or webcam? Where do I see the “device manager”? Another great example is themes. GTK and QT themes do not play nicely together. Linux has a division within its own ecosystem. In fact, everything is divided and thus has issues inter-communicating.
This is not to mention the bugs I’ve encountered in multiple distros. In Fedora, the last time I tried, I couldn’t change my mouse settings in their GUI. I had to use bashrc and issue an x11 mouse setting command to get the mouse movement I wanted.
At the end of the day, I want to use my computer to do the thing I want to do. Not make simply using my computer a hobby in itself. This is the case for the majority of computer users.
Lastly, Linux as a community has a hard time taking absolutely valid feedback and brushing it off. I’m trying to help Linux by saying it’s terrible. I want it to be good. It can be good. Getting pushback for valid feedback isn’t going to encourage anyone to give their feedback which Linux absolutely needs more valuable feedback if it’s going to become a mainstream desktop OS.
Linux is also a collection of distros. We don’t call them GNU/Linux distros (because they don’t have to be using GNU. Linux is just the broader term for the community and the distros the community uses. My point, clearly, is that the GUIs that are provided on the distros or in the repos, or by the community all are terrible. If you want to be pedantic further feel free but I’m not going to engage in a semantic war.
LineageOS depends on volunteers with knowledge, time, and access to the hardware in question. So sometimes they abandon certain phones (or never support at all).
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