The corrollary is that pushing Linux usage rate won’t happen through installer improvements but through politics and having access to preinstalled Linux.

That’s not most people no. That’s a tiny number of people.

Don’t get me wrong. Making the installation easier is a good thing. But thinking it will change anything to the usage rate of Linux is naive.

Most people do not install any OS and they will never do. Ever.

Installing Linux is not hard already. The single barrier is partitioning. Well, at least when everything works. Secure boot is also a barrier, as are bios configured to NOT boot on a USB key by default. Or Windows with its fast boot making accessing the bios and booting on devices harder.

If you want to consider people who want to try to install Linux without experience, there are a dozen of barriers, and the installer is not the biggest one, far from it.

The installation is irrelevant to the use of Linux. The vast majority of people never installed Windows. And they never will.

Oh so managers are biological LLMs! It explains everything!

I am an engineer. Most developers aren’t though, unfortunately.

Moor law is dead for a few years now. It’s a fact. It doesn’t mean performances stoped increasing. But they don’t follow the old law. That’s why the industry is shifting to distributed networking.

None of those are major breakthrough. They’re more computing power. It’s still the same technology.

Today llm are the prime candidate for a breakthrough. They still have to prove themselves though, to prove that they’re not just a fancy expensive useless toy like the blockchain.

Risc-v is not meant to be a breakthrough. It’s an evolution.

Internet was a breakthrough. The invention of the mouse was a breakthrough.

Increase in power or in disk space, new languages or os, none of those are breakthroughs. None of those changed how computer programs were made or used.

The smartphone is a significant thing. Wi-Fi is not really important though, because you don’t do anything more with WiFi than you can do with ethernet. The smartphone though and its network, that is a big thing.

There is a lot of fake progress. In computer technology some things were refined, but the only true technological novelty these last 20 years was the containerization. And maybe AI. Internet was the previous jump, but it’s not really a computer technology, and it affect much, much more than that.

And Moor law has already ended some years ago.

You are completely missing the point. The problem is that you are considering employees to be the bad ones, and thus you are selecting them.

You are describing here someone who will get wrong and isn’t able to work properly. If this is the kind of person you are looking to hire, then good for you, and your hiring process is perfect. But good employees will hate your company, because you consider them like bad ones. Many people will also end up acting like bad employees because that’s how you consider them, so why should they bother?

This the problem with modern management and hr: it is hostile to employees.

A dev work on some code. It works, great, job done.

An engineer comes to see this work. It hasn’t been thoroughly tested, it only works on the dev computer in his coding environment. There is no documentation. There is no comments in the code. Half the features are missing because the story didn’t talk about them. Installing the “software” is made by hand and only one person knows how to do that. Some libraries are used with various licences, some are outdated, some can’t be maintained, some will download stuff on their own. Performances are shit. I certainly forget a lot of stuff.

Now the engineer will work to solve all these non code problems.

Now the problem is that software companies don’t care about engineers because they have managers. Managers will consider engineers like developers and ask them to work like developers. They will also tell the engineer that his lunacies are too time consuming, which means too expensive, so they will go in the backlog and be forgotten.

Yes I’m disillusioned and depressed about working in software development. It’s not like this everywhere. Some companies have an engineering culture. Especially when they come from older industries, like electronics or car etc. But I haven’t had the chance to work in one for 5 years now.

Ah it’s French for object oriented programming

Oh I agree that questions are two often badly answered! The exemple of “why don’t you use this instead” is the worst offender. I didn’t understand you were talking about this, and I’m still traumatised by javascript after 14 years.

For their credit basic javascript is a garbage language.

Just no. CLI can be automated, which makes it superior. It’s not a superiority complex, it’s a fact. I’m not a minimal wage worker pushing buttons I don’t understand. I’m not a technician who learnt your shitty software to do the most basic tasks.

Oh I have some!

Computer science is still a hobby and has a lot to go through before it is an actual industry.

Developers are too often bad engineers.

Short development cycles are a bad thing.

POO is trash. It’s a manager tool, not an engineering one.

I would say it’s how most softwares are done. And no, it’s not a good thing, and you should do what you can to improve things.

My boss and his boss told me that it is impossible to keep documentation up to date and too expensive, which is why we don’t have any. Let’s say I’m not the most engaged worker there now.

Not always true. Not for all games. And multiplayer games already have multithreading in some way.

Programmers mostly don’t know how to make multithread programs.

I’m not really a normy, but the simple act of making an account is not obvious. With that barrier of entry, most people will simply never be able to join here.