Roland L. Taylor (RolandiXor)

New Roll Out just landed.

This week: let’s challenge the myth that open-source software is uniquely hard to learn and recognise how often familiarity gets mistaken for quality.

Key takeaway: every serious tool has a learning curve. What matters is whether it leads somewhere worth going.

Plus:
• Familiarity isn’t quality
• Selective grace
• Willingness is the barrier

Read: https://rolandixor.pro/blog/post/the-roll-out-17

RE: @capibarabot@lile.cl

Why is he walking 😭

You know, some days I wish I'd kept practicing C/C++ and assembly (yes, I started with these, and Python), because I could be making some cool stuff 🤔

Massive respect to those who stuck with them and make all the cool stuff I use now. Maybe some day, I'll return.

You know, if there's one reason for me to hate AI, it's that everybody thinks U2014 is an immediate tell you're using it.

(If you know you know.... regarding U2014. (And U2012, U2013, and U2015).

You know, I may not be the biggest fan of KDE's visual style (GNOME is much, much more polished and streamlined), but one thing I gotta hand it to them for - they really know how to make things like installing missing plugins seamless.

Tried to install a flatpak with discover. Discover didn't have the plugin. So you know what it did? Took me straight to the plugin so I could install it.

Simple, but brilliant.

Maybe it's just me, but I miss the days when studios just gave us the trailers, instead of the teaser, the teaser trailer, the trailer rough cut, the director's cut trailer, the definitive edition trailer, the "what if" trailer, the...

RE: @mainframed767@infosec.exchange

More like LTT isn't ready for honest commentary on Linux.

*whistling*

RE: @CultureDesk@flipboard.social

There is no such thing as a dying art so long as there are living people to perform it.