discusseded

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[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I appreciate the feedback. For the Linux side it's for personal projects and learning opportunities so starting with something familiar and growing from there is my goal.

I dabble in C and C++ so cli isn't out of the question for me. But .NET is my comfort zone, and I like the rapid tooling that PS offers.

I have multiple reasons to dig into Python so really I just need to get on with it.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Python is always something I intend to learn but never get around to. Does it natively handle GUI for process tooling or does it require a third party? What makes PowerShell so useful to me is the native ability to create visual applications without the need to compile. I can create tools for my company that launches right out of ConfigMgr Software Center and other technicians can contribute without needing a programming background.

At home I want to mess around with tooling for home services without having to resort to web development.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

By far it's the object pipeline. Having structured data makes it easy to automate workflows in a predictable way. With bash everything is a string, so everything has to be parsed. It's tedious.

It took about a year of steady use before I came to enjoy the syntax. It shines in a production environment with other cooks in the kitchen. I never got into the C style, I like my code human readable at a glance. It's fine if everyone's a sage but we have a team with a mixture of skill levels and for me PowerShell gets it right.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

I did install it on one of my machines but haven't dug in yet. I'm curious to see how much of my workflow will translate to Linux, yet at the same time I want to make sure I'm actually learning Linux and not using PS as a crutch.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the reference. I'm looking at it and I think you're right.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago (11 children)

After learning PowerShell and then moving to Linux and having to learn bash...I don't get this sentiment. PS is the shit. I can make full GUI applications and automate all kinds of workflows. Their use of objects makes it so easy to extract data and utilize it. Bash feels so much more primitive and clumsy by comparison. What am I missing here?

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 20 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I was just thinking about this and how weird and fucked up it is. Imagine a country where 13% of schools were owned and operated by the Flat Earth Society, and nobody questions it.

Unless they have Jesus there healing the sick just what the hell is the big idea? There must be some reason or history to it. Maybe they built hospitals where none were for the community?

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

Adding that zorin was great as well but it's Debian-based so driver support was behind enough that some games wouldn't launch for me.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like fedora but I'm really loving opensuse tumbleweed on both my desktop and laptop. I have Nvidia rtx cards and support is just a few mouse clicks post-image. I get better FPS now than I did in Windows 11.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I wanted to like it and I tried it over and over but I could not for the life of me get opensuse aeon or kalpa to work on my desktop when tumbleweed works perfectly. As soon as I installed the Nvidia drivers it went belly up and I couldn't find help online.

I'm still new to Linux so I'll accept that I need more experience but I can't help but feel like a degree in computer science is a recommended prereq for this stuff since there just doesn't seem to be solid documentation to get you through it.

That experience made me take microos off my server and put in proxmox instead.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago

Microsoft Solitaire on Android. The ads were driving me nuts so I went to pay for the app. If I recall they wanted almost 10 bucks a month for that shit. Deleted, forgotten, until now.

[–] discusseded@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Shoot, I can afford 5 schmeckles a month.

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