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  • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlIt's time to move to Linux - YouTube
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    1 month ago

    I think there are two major hurdles keeping Linux adoption back (besides the obvious installation bit). The first is that our backwards compatibility is terrible. It is easier to get old versions of Windows software to run in Wine than it is to get some old Linux software to run natively.

    If something like Photoshop did finally release a Linux version, even if they only did one release to make 2% of people happy, it likely wouldn’t be able to run natively after 5 years.

    The second is a good graphical toolkit. Yes, GTK and Qt exist, but neither are as simple as WinForms or SwiftUI/Aqua.













  • Strong Towns and Not Just Bikes both go over the math more in other articles/videos, but I’ll try to provide a decent summary.

    Basically, the cost to maintain the roads and infrastructure in a city are paid for by everyone in the area, and because cities are usually smaller and mixed-use, you have several homes and businesses chipping in to pay the same mile of asphalt and water/sewer.

    When you get to the suburbs, even though they pay more in taxes because they’re larger and newer, they’re also more spread out, often with a large highway out to them. They require this dedicated infrastructure line, and still require fire/police/garbage services, which requires more staffing, more buildings, and more trucks.

    Imagine you’re playing two games of Cities Skylines.

    In the first game, you have small, 2-lane roads, your houses and apartment buildings are small, one-four block sizes, you have a corner store every other street, and because everything is within 5 blocks, people walk to their destination. You really only need one fire station, one police station, and a dump.

    In the second game, you have a highway to a residential-only area. All your residences are 6 blocks big and in cul-de-sacs. You’d likely have to have one police/fire stations on one side of the suburb and one on the other in order to get full coverage. They’d require their own garbage dump in order to get the best service, and you’d have to run sewer/water lines out to them.

    Which of these cities do you think would do better financially?

    If you’d like more supplementary reading/watching here are the other videos that go into this more in-depth:

    That last video is actually part of a whole playlist, which starts here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa


  • RiderExMachina@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlHopeless.
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    6 months ago

    I’d recommend finding some FOSS projects to contribute to so that you can stay sharp and also add stuff to your resume. Plenty out there that needs worked on, and not all of it can be done by people working full time at another job.