Typically, I can read an “average” open source programmers code. One of the issues I have with C++ is the standard library source seems to be completely incomprehensible.

I recently started learning rust, and the idea of being able to look at the standard library source to understand something without having to travel through 10 layers of abstraction was incredible to me.

Remind me how to do this, please. I always forget this part…

Agree with this. I think tactfully pointing out minor issues you see can be helpful because the implementor is closer to the problem and may have just overlooked the issue and can come up with a solution easily. I’ve been on the giving and receiving end of this, and so long as everyone is behaving professionally, it’s always been helpful.

On the “tactful” note, I’ll generally say something like: “I don’t have a solution, but I see problem. I don’t know that this is reason enough to hold up this PR. I’ll leave it up to you.”

Yep. I use both quite a bit. Chocolatey is great!

The point Im trying to make is package managers are better suited for developers and the lack of a great alternative for installing software on the distros I’ve used is not helping with the mass appeal of Linux.

I could be wrong here as I’ve never tried any of the “home computer” distros (mint, ubuntu).

Why do you think its bad? From a secruity standpoint its obviously not great, but its undeniably more convenient than running a curl command to pull in a third party .repo file, yum update and yum install to get something that isnt easily available in my base repos.

Im not sure the software center being half baked is even the real problem.

One of the nice things about Windows is that you dont need a central, curated, repository for software. You can google the thing you want and just download an msi/exe of the latest stable version and, 99.9% of the time, leading back to your first point, it will just work.

This is what prevented me from using podman, unfortunately. That and the setup for devcontainers in vscode wasnt exactly seamless.

Unfortunate since their windows support is great.

I am but I’m very quickly finding out I have nothing to contribute.

It does seem like some servers have specific niches, so if you’re really interested in a specific servers niche using that instance would prevent you from having to sync those communities with your instance.

I’m new, so someone correct me if I’m wrong.

You need a space between your ‘#’ and text for markdown headings (unless you wanted to do it that way in which case ignore me). Great post!