balder1993

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[–] balder1993@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Brands want to push their own style on people, to make themselves recognizable, and to push their ideas about UX to their users

That’s not a universal behavior though. There’s so many utilities and simpler apps made by indie developers or smaller companies that don’t care about this.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, saying “most GitHub users can’t live without a commercial entity” is such a nonsense. GitHub is successful while it works well. The moment it doesn’t, there will be other services.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

At the same time, I feel like nowadays there's less forums or places people can ask help with, although today ChatGPT can be a good help with newbie questions.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

You’re right, but that’s not the point. The other poster said it’s a skill issue. Sure, if the person can’t run commands in a terminal or doesn’t know what’s an executable that’s a skill issue.

Getting stuck because the game is having weird glitches that show off once in a while and you need classes on computer graphics to debug isn’t skill issues imo. Otherwise are all gonna establish that Linux isn’t for non programmers then?

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Another option is to have enough people in the company interested in using that to justify it.

In my company (a large bank) Linux is now being rolled out to selected people as test because there was enough interest from a lot of the backend crowd.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It’s a good concept, I just have to look it up and understand exactly what it is doing before I start using it.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

That’s what I do, except I straight up create the python venv in a folder, activate it and then do pip install yt-dlp. No messing up with my system.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

This is at the very least super interesting.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago

This is very good.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

It seems that it is based on Qt, so there might be a easy way to fix this unless they’re creating their controls from scratch. I know QML can be used as a canvas to draw custom controls, so it depends on the code.

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I’m not sure how that could even be done, maybe a way to control the GUI with commands that you’d then be able to script, like Selenium on browsers?

[–] balder1993@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

That would probably look terrible though.

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