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I've been using Linux since ~1996; I used to wonder about this a lot.

The tl;dr answer is, it's too much effort only to solve the problem of making life easier for new users, and it can be a disservice to users in the long run.

As others have pointed out, there are limited GUI tools for common administration roles.

Power users are much, much faster at doing things via CLI. Most administrative tasks involve text file management and the UNIX userland is exceptional at processing text files.

A graphical tool would have to deal with evolving system software and APIs, meaning the GUI tool would be on constant outpatient care; this is counter to the UNIX philosophy which is to make software simple and well-defined such that it can be considered "done" and remain versatile and flexible enough to live for decades virtually unchanged.

It wouldn't be that much easier for things like network rules unless a truly incredible UI was designed, and that would be a risk since the way that's implemented at the system level is subject to change at any point. It's hard enough keeping CLI userland tools in sync with the kernel as it is.

It would need to be adaptable to the ways different distributions do things. Administration on CentOS is not always the same as it is on Debian.

And ultimately, the longer a user spends depending on GUI tools, the longer it will take them to learn and become proficient with the CLI, which will always be a far more useful skill to have. You'll never learn the innards of containers or VPS' if you only know how to do things from the GUI.

I'm a JetBrains person. I like vim, but I also heavily use IDE features and VSCode just never scratched the right itches. I've worked with many people who use VC but when I pair with them and watch their workflows, they simply aren't as efficient, as if they're unaware of what a proper IDE can actually do. They also complain when VC extensions get mature and become paid extensions, which hasn't been a problem with JB.

I use Copilot with JetBrains, but it's only "cool", not "awesome". When I really need help with some code Copilot rarely does the right thing, and JB's code completion already works really well. I know Copilot for VC is better than for JB and they claim they're going to bring parity to JB at some point, but this article makes me suspect they're lying. If they don't I'm going to start shopping for competitors.

Hah, that'll be fun on my desktop... I don't even have a microphone.

Got it. This is helpful, thank you!

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Ah okay. I'm in the habit of copy-pasting after the > manually so I hadn't noticed that.

It's Beej! Long (!) time student of your guides, hope to see more of you here.

We'll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was "totally watched and stuff".

🤣 I didn't think you were trying to tell me something, I figured the Lemmy code goofed somewhere.

I'm undefined? 😟

Otherwise known as managing success. Once you have a successful cash flow you need to diversify it and build your business to have multiple cash flows.

Semantics I guess. Di-worse-ification isn't always the answer. They had a large product lineup, which was probably more expensive for them than it needed to be. They went under because they failed to fortify their balance sheet... rates went up and their debt crushed them.

Capitalism works fine just turning a profit while plenty of companies die chasing growth. It's just part of it.

Twitter isn't like reddit in that hashtags don't have moderators. They outsourced moderating to the users, and now Musk has decided to remove it entirely.

I don't get it.

I wouldn't be so sure. I believe great managers could take it over and rescue it today, but they don't have great managers, the place is run by idiots. It might survive in the manner Digg survived.

They just made it a lot harder to moderate by sparking an angry powder keg like they did, let alone killing all the mod tooling. That was better than what they've managed to produce in almost 20 years. They've also lost many of the moderators who weren't doing it for the money (at least not reddit's money). They can always hire new moderators, but that's yet another expense on the earnings statement.

If they can get all the spam and hate posts under control it's going to be a repost farm and OP will not surely deliver anymore.

From where I'm standing it appears they've been given an ultimatum by VC investors who are hellbent on selling whether they lose their asses at the bottom or not.

It's not how they managed success, it's that they ran out of it. Making a successful niche kitchen appliance is not a business, it's one of many things that a successful niche kitchen appliance business does.

Successful businesses also allocate capital optimally, build formidable brand and product moats, hire amazing managers and build fortified balance sheets. They forgot to do all that stuff. (See also: reddit)