On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/27/2015 12:11 PM, Xen wrote:
In Windows you have to buy tools really. In Linux you often have to develop them yourself. The latter takes a lot of time,
For a novice, neophyte maybe, but after a few years, throwing together a shell script of a couple of lines of perl is something you do almost unconsciously. You don't notice the time. You probably spend more time walking down the hallway to get a coffee.
That's mostly because you've already spent years becoming familiar with the available tools so you've already chosen a subset of what you like to work with. This becoming familiar with tools and finding you way is the part that requires the most effort or energy or time. And it is basically a work everyone has to do for himself. There are no shortcuts, unless you are working or engaging with familiar people (friends, likemindeds) whom you can do the work together with. I am still exploring how I can do some automated backups and how I can set up some data replication among hosts, and how I can ensure how it is going to be as painless for me as possible (basically a single call and the system does the rest without me having to pay attention). Linux is usually something that requires a lot of time to set up and get right for yourself. It is really a long investment. Spending years configuring your Linux system is no exception and I think that if you are going to lose the progress you've made at some point (in terms of files you've written) you would have a really terrible setback. It is a bit of a dark area, a spooky room. You are in alien environment and not much is friendly. Now to find your way. It reminds me of some M.U.D. I played. I used to play a MUD written by some fellow students at Uni. That was actually a nice environment and we had friends and one of us wrote a graphical tool to do the navigation through the world. An auto-mapper. But after I tried another mud that was called ROP. Rites of Passage. And I had no one there and everything was dangerous and in the end I walked into some room and got killed instantly. It was just spooky. Command line Linux reminds me of that. Spooky and alien. And unfriendly. Dark. Lonely.
Polishing it for publication with documentation, man page, making it so robust other idiots who don't make the same assumptions as you do, yes that's difficult.
Actually that's a joy to do :). xx. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org