I did that many times with my game engine, and every time I have had to postpone a release by at least two weeks: one week of implementing the feature, one week of debugging it. (Where can I find people who want to work on an open source game engine?)
I’m not fully convinced yet… maybe if it was four weeks with records broken every day, then I’d really consider changing my mind. But probably not because it was all made up by Al Gore.
And it wasn’t just a 4KB “stick” of RAM or something, it was literally magnetic rings threaded onto wires called Magentic Core Memory. Further, 4 KB implies that it was 4096 bytes, but it was actually 2048 “words” consisting of 15-bits (+1 parity bit) [source]. 2048 words requiring 16 bits each means 32,768 magnetic rings weaved onto tiny wires. Oh, and another fun detail about magnetic core memory is that if you read a value, I.e check to see if one of those magnetic rings is set to 0 or 1, that is a destructive operation. So if you wanted to read without deleting, you have to read and then immediately rewrite.
No, it is our job as humans to create great moments. All we do now is collecting, putting it on the internet and hoping for a dopamine rush from internet points.
Fragmentation, there is so many WM, DE, Distros, package managers. This is the beauty of open source but it is also the plague.
Toxic communities, where people are thrashing you if you don’t understand sometimes the overly complicated wiki and you dare open a thread in one of the forums to seek for help.
Driver support, sometimes installing your OS requires a lot of manual configuration to make everything work ok your machine the way you want it.
A lot of people have already talked about the onboarding/installation experience, so I’ll just chime in and say a lot of new users are unfamiliar with using a terminal for commands and instead favour a GUI experience solely for their tasks. Most modern and commercially appealing distros are moving in this direction (ie applications running the same terminal commands in the background with an easy to understand UI at the front) but I’d still say the community’s insistence on terminal over all other forms of executing a command may be a turn off for the layman trying it for the first time after Windows and MacOS.
Almost makes me think it would be more ideal to reduce the stigma associated with executing commands in the terminal and find some way to get people more comfortable with using it, both via Linux and also CMD for Windows as well.
I would agree that this is one of the biggest barriers to entry other than software compatibility.
If i was able to use ILok on linux for my music plugins and vsts, then id likely make the switch. But unfortunately ILok doesnt seem to be interested at least not since i last checked.
I don’t mind using a terminal so much, but trying to follow people’s terminal instructions can be quite challenging. It seems like 90% of the time they leave out critical details because they assume you’d already know what you’re doing or you get errors because they have packages installed that you don’t. It reminds me of this gem from Malcolm in the Middle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
I agree with this more than trying to make Linux more GUI oriented overall. GUI’s are great for certain interfaces like phones and tablets for obvious reasons. GUIs are also great if you don’t exactly know what you’re looking for and need a lengthy list of available interactive elements you would have to read and parse a lengthy man page to find in the terminal.
Honestly I think that when learning computers in early age education systems, the terminal should be taught alongside GUI applications so the general public would have an understanding that there is this very powerful tool they can use to quickly execute commands. It is a pre requisite to demystifying computers regardless of which OS you use, and it makes working with your computer a lot less of a headache when you have this bare bones tool that can assist you in finding out the answer to your problem via a verbose error output rather than a cryptic message to call your sys admin or send a notice to the OS provider that likely will not solve your problem in a timely manner.
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