Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by snagglegaggle on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:11AM
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Stating it that way makes it seem like you're opposed to learning something new. That's fine, but a lot of people including GP just looked once and never did anything else.
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Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by kerkeslager on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:17PM
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Frankly, yes, I'm opposed to learning new tools when the old tools I used for the same task did the task just as well.
Knowledge is power, so learning should increase your power. If learning is necessary to just keep being able to do the same things you were doing, you're not increasing your power, you're struggling to stay where you are.
I’m not. However, I can’t keep going back to square one. I need problems I’ve solved to remain solved, not have to jump into X configs in Vim because my monitor layout won’t stay between sessions (random example from many years ago). I have 5 hours of work to do today, I’d like to not spend 2 of them in man files “learning” about an abstraction I can’t afford to be digging into right now.