Why bad news? It means that thereâs an universal package with official support for every distro instead of them just supporting Debian/Ubuntu and everything else being just⊠kinda there and unnoficial.
I am not in favour of these flatpacks/snaps or whatever these things are called. Packages should be distro packages, always. And the vendor of the software should never be responsible of packaging, thats literally the job of the distribution.
From what I remember a few years ago, itâs not like Wine where you can run a bunch of applications (simply because theyâre not as big and donât have the contributors). So you wonât be running any GUI apps at all, just some low level stuff here and there.
Hey so Iâve had a lot of help in life and this is one step Iâve mastered with my friends. I can tell you how to do it, but not everyone has the motivation to follow this. If you donât, Iâm sorry but this wonât work for you.
THE MINDSET
Landing your first job comes from several steps:
You need a good resume
You need a lot of applications
You need to get a lot of interviews
You need to be good at interviews
(Note that 4 is after 3 because your first bunch of interviews will be about practice, not getting the job. Itâs free practice!)
THE RESUME
The resume is not a one step process. Itâs something that you should redesign and iterate on as time goes by. I personally wrote my resume in LaTeX since it stands out more than the black on white ones. If you to do this, create an account on Overleaf.com and ping me your username, Iâll share you a copy of mine that you can just fill out with your info.
THE APPLICATIONS
This is the most crucial step, and the one people screw up. This is the step that you must listen to what I have to say, and you will get a job.
You should be able to apply to a posting in LESS THAN 30 seconds. If you are taking more than 30 seconds, you are doing it wrong.
Why?
Itâs up to the company to decide if youâre qualified, not you. So donât read the job posting
With ZERO experience, it will take 60-90 applications per interview. At 110 applications an hour, thatâs just over 1 interview an hour. You donât have time to read the posting.
If youâre actually good at computers (youâre on c/Linux afterall), this efficiency level shouldnât be a problem for you
Once you master this step, youâve almost got your foot in the door and are ready to start your life. If you canât do this step, I canât help you.
Note: If you donât see âQuick Applyâ on anything, get a free VPN and change your location to North America. Itâs not there for some countries.
THE INTERVIEWS
The interviews are about 2 things:
Can this guy communicate?
Can this guy code?
THE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE IS AS LISTED. When I ask someone to write an algorithm to find all the prime numbers less than some N and they start making typos in the editor while not talking, Iâm not hiring them. If someone writes a brute force O(n^2) solution but talks me through it as they go, they still have a chance.
Let me be clear: If you cannot communicate, I will not hire you even if you have the most optimal solutions.
So how do you communicate?
When solving a problem, legit just explain your thought process. The interviewer will know where you are and give you hints too when you do this ;)
When answering a behavioural question, tell a story
i.e âTell me about a time you had a successful project, but still werenât satisfied with the resultsâ you should explain everything from what made you want to start/contribute on the project, to the crux of the problem, and to what you did to make it better in the end
Check out this guide on the STAR method if you have a hard time with this (trust me - it works!)
THE OFFERS
When negotiating the offer, note a few things:
The salary range for the title in that area
If they ask how much you want, give a RANGE - The lowest being the 60k or the bare minimum youâll accept (whichever is higher, if you think youâre worth less than 60k youâre just wrong), and the highest being 90-100k for your first position
Donât feel pressured to accept your offer right away - you get raises by switching jobs, not doing well; start this early, get multiple offers, and pick the best one
Iâm past the point in my life of getting that âfirst jobâ, but Iâve been there. You have to understand something: People donât like being uncomfortable, but your comfort zone wonât get you a job. Do it. You can do it.
Letâs try to be respectful of each other. Iâm sure the devs of Elementary have their own vision and goals of their platform. They give their users an option to use their work for free and with no obligations. Why on earth would you bash their work when you obviously are not their target demographic.
Itâs really not fair to call their users stupid either.
I really expected to find more evolved discussions on lemmy compared to reddit. Letâs stop the silly, meaningless bashing of opposing opinions or even worse personal attacks. Letâs not let this platform devolve into mob mentality.
And by the way Iâm not the target demographic either. Iâm a software developer using arch wherever I can.
Being a free software GNU distribution is also the point of Guix, and itâs part of what attracted me to it (although its practical abilities are nice as well).
Many people noticed that on that thread, and this behaviour is very much in line with what happened on the Huawei KPI count criticism mailing list post as well, just one day ago.
This goes in line with a recent comment I made:
It is also the case, however, that a bunch of anti-China conspiracists exist inside open source community, solely because of their subconscious brainwashing into the notion that USA is the one responsible for the existence of libre open source culture, and important figures like RMS and Torvalds also are from USA, and Silicon Valley also being a part of this. This culture existing because of US and EU is absolutely BS to the core.
There is a lot of gatekeeping culture by the believers of Western hegemon, and want to retain it, as the influence of Asians grows into open libre digital culture. This group racism combined with gatekeeping should be condemned and worked against, and I feel it shows a bias of the moderators there who either fear racist callouts against them, or are themselves believers of Western hegemony retention.
Open source is a socialist idea to the core, that puts the power and control into the hands of the society, instead of corporations as is with x86, and so, in this way the anti-socialist Westerners also practice their political ideological influence over the whole community.
It is disgusting for me, how my reactions as an Indian in Western groups have all been initially reduced to âHELLO MICROSOFT TECH SUPPORTâ in voice chats, and there are other epithets and labellings for others in the world too.
I donât really see the advantage of something like this for me, Most of the time, I blast the OS away anyway, even if itâs an os I actually use, I use gentoo, but I said I donât see the point for someone like me, But if itâs your cup of tea, go for it. Iâm glad to see more manufacurers support linux though!
I mainly think this is the gateway to more people even knowing about Linux, plus the added benefit of the hardware being more likely to get long-tern support. Making it easy for people to buy devices with Linux out of the box could do wonders for adoption, at least how I see it.
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