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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by andrewflnr on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:02PM (#33111681)
> wonder what happens when every dev environment is just a docker pull away

They learn later, when/if they actually need it. And for those who turn out to be unwilling or unable, well, there wasn't much chance they'd have taken the same path as you, anyway.

Speaking of paths, specifically path dependence, autotools and friends really are monstrosities and should rightfully be relegated to history. I hope that simpler, easier environment building really are the future, as you hinted.

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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by WWLink on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:22PM (#33114262)
In my experience, it would become "You're not allowed to deviate from the standard environment" lol.
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Re:Cloud desktops aren't as good as you'd think by andrewflnr on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:40AM (#33118779)
If they're so helpless they can't figure out how to even get to an environment other than their corporate standard one, then they have, again, already exited the pipeline before this conversation becomes relevant. Someone incapable of setting up a linux vm was never going to do original ops work, regardless of what the computing ecosystem around them looks like.
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