Yea. I have this irrational expectation that desktop apps should work coherently and consistently. If the Ubuntu desktop works with "^V", then the terminal app should work with it also.
I also have this irrational expectation that the dude who developed the terminal app should be smart enough to know that (regardless of internal representation on the clipboard) it is worthless to paste a URL into a bash shell.
Yea. In the past Six months, I've gone from zero knowledge of linux to debugging kernel drivers for embedded hardware, but I have no ability to learn tools. I have built a mac-based cross-compiler for PPC-linux, integrated it with xcode 5, set up a mechanism to build ext3 formatted SD cards on a mac, but I have no ability to learn tools. Let me tell you...anyone who can navigate, understand and modify that rats nest of old-school source code called "linux kernel" can learn whatever he wants. I just don't want to waste my time hacking a terminal app to get it work more rationally. I'll just buy apple's and spend my time doing productive instead.
With that reply, you show why linux will NEVER be competitive on the desktop. Its advocates generally don't see any need to do the things that need to be done to create an experience most people expect. Most of you have a hacker's mentality...not the mentality of a person who has to sell a product to average people.
Don't get me wrong...I have no problem with a hacker's mentality. It's perfectly fine...but it ain't gonna create a general purpose desktop that is worth having. It hasn't in how many years of trying?
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Re: mac developer working with linux
Date: 2014-05-19 10:17 pm (UTC)I also have this irrational expectation that the dude who developed the terminal app should be smart enough to know that (regardless of internal representation on the clipboard) it is worthless to paste a URL into a bash shell.
Yea. In the past Six months, I've gone from zero knowledge of linux to debugging kernel drivers for embedded hardware, but I have no ability to learn tools. I have built a mac-based cross-compiler for PPC-linux, integrated it with xcode 5, set up a mechanism to build ext3 formatted SD cards on a mac, but I have no ability to learn tools. Let me tell you...anyone who can navigate, understand and modify that rats nest of old-school source code called "linux kernel" can learn whatever he wants. I just don't want to waste my time hacking a terminal app to get it work more rationally. I'll just buy apple's and spend my time doing productive instead.
With that reply, you show why linux will NEVER be competitive on the desktop. Its advocates generally don't see any need to do the things that need to be done to create an experience most people expect. Most of you have a hacker's mentality...not the mentality of a person who has to sell a product to average people.
Don't get me wrong...I have no problem with a hacker's mentality. It's perfectly fine...but it ain't gonna create a general purpose desktop that is worth having. It hasn't in how many years of trying?