• umbraroze@lemmy.world
    123·
    4 months ago

    Plot twist: the “wolves” are just furries going to a major infosec conference, and will also talk endlessly about Linux

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    952·
    4 months ago

    Definitely next to Linux guy. I’ve been working on Linux since very early days, so I don’t talk about it because at this point it is as core to my life as knowing how to brush teeth. Nothing would entertain me more than to spend a flight giving that guy the ole “ummmm…actually”.

  • Sabin10@lemmy.world
    701·
    4 months ago

    I’ll sit beside him, put in my IEMs so I can’t hear him and reimage my steam deck with windows 11 just to make him squirm.

  • KrapKake@lemmy.world
    50·
    4 months ago

    Well this is lemmy, nearly everyone is the Linux guy. Personally I would definitely sit next to the Linux guy because I would love to nerd out with someone else about Linux for 10 hours.

  • EnderMB@lemmy.world
    394·
    4 months ago

    I’ll sit next to 1, and I’ll spend the entire flight talking to him about my .NET setup on Windows and how to date Visual Studio is still the best IDE available for any mainstream programming language.

        • smb@lemmy.mlEnglish
          201·
          4 months ago

          i somehow feel this might be sort of a vim-vim situation 😁

            • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
              3·
              4 months ago

              I wish they’d open source it.

              I don’t think anything else comes close for just dropping a bunch of shit on a form and running it.

            • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              I think it’s a different beast entirely.

              The open source alternative to Delphi is Lazarus if you’re that way inclined.

              A lot of Delphi was the work of Anders Hejlsberg, who you might remember from other little known languages such as C# and Typescript.

        • Miyabi@lemmy.zip
          7·
          4 months ago

          There is some that are faster and probably lighter and more efficient. But better, no. VSCode takes the cake. I use VSCodium.

          • EnderMB@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 months ago

            I’d consider vscode to still be a text editor, although I do really like using it for TypeScript. For me, VS still takes the crown because it’s just so good at debugging and evaluating C#. It’s hard for anyone to compete since Microsoft largely owns (yes, I know the .NET Foundation is responsible for .NET) the whole ecosystem.

              • EnderMB@lemmy.world
                1·
                4 months ago

                True. If I were to count text editors then vscode would probably be the winner. TypeScript support in vscode is just beautiful.

            • herrvogel@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 months ago

              Vanilla vscode is not an IDE, true. But that’s a moot point as you can load that shit up with a bajillion extensions and turn it into what’s basically a proper IDE.

          • EnderMB@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            I was so excited for Rider, especially since I do like some of the features of other JetBrains IDE’s, but I’ve found it just too unreliable when it comes to build support, and despite years of dominance in tooling from the ReSharper days VS intellisense is just much nicer. It’s very close though, and IMO Rider is nicer to use for C# than IntelliJ or PyCharm are for their respective languages.

  • udon@lemmy.world
    29·
    4 months ago

    Totally next to the linux guy. In fact, I was in such a situation on the train before. I was just there working and the person sitting next to me noticed I had a linux desktop (in fact, GNU/Linux, btw). They were curious and vaguely interested in switching to linux for a while, so we had a nice conversation about this.

    I would not bring this up myself, but it’s cool that this happens sometimes (i.e., once in a few decades of life so far)

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      14·
      4 months ago

      Totally next to the linux guy. In fact, what you’re refering to as Linux is GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    • Here4CatPics@lemmy.world
      7·
      4 months ago

      This is the good interaction, I had the bad version:

      Long ago in highschool I was interested in Linux but was thrown off it by the “Tech” group of kids who, even though we went to the same nerdy Star Trek club, told me I would be able to understand it.

      I get that hurt people, hurt others; but duck those guys from 20 years in the future.

      I’m getting back into interest for Linux cause I just got a Steam Deck and I’m curious as to what else I can do with a full desktop.

      • udon@lemmy.world
        61·
        4 months ago

        Good luck! The way I see it: Linux has its issues, but so do Windows and Mac OS (and others). The cool thing with Linux though is that for many problems you can create/find some form of error logs, google them, and someone online will help you. In most cases they have solved that problem already.

        Windows problems often feel like black magic: Something doesn’t work, but all you can do is knock on your laptop, turn it off and on again, and pray. Unless you’re lucky and find a shady program online that you can download and install, hoping the programmers mean well.

        With Mac OS, you can often solve problems by throwing money at them. But sometimes that doesn’t work and then you can’t do anything about them and just have to accept the one way to use your computer correctly.

        So in that sense I don’t think Linux is “harder”. There are problems of course, but you learn to think differently about them and are often able to solve them.