On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:11:28PM -0400, Andrew Gwozdziewycz wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Alexander Huemer > <alexander.hue...@xx.vu> wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 12:14:32AM +0000, orangepri...@hushmail.com wrote: > >> If anything, Apple's dominance has made people familiar with the Unix > >> command-line, which is certainly better than had they been using > >> Windows. > > > > Oh. Where does this come from? > > Direct observation. Go to any conference (I've only been to > conferences in the US, so YMMV), or Meetup, and witness the number of > glowing Apples staring back at you. > Ask any of my friends / coworkers who were GNU/Linux users who now use > an Mac and carry an iPhone in their pocket. Ask any "startup" who > deploys to the "cloud" or to racked GNU/Linux machines what their > developers develop their software on. It's likely named after a fruit.
Unrelated. I couldn't care less what these people do, they are morons. > My last job advertised in the job description: "Whatever setup you > want! We default to a Mac laptop and a giant monitor." I asked for a > Thinkpad, cause I knew the recruiter had one, and was provisioned a > Mac. They're solution to my desire to run a Linux distro? Use > virtualization -- That's a shitty option if I want to use X + dwm > though. Unrelated. > > People are steered away from the commandline through Apples efforts. > > Most of the people I know on Apple machines still use the command > line... And, they install stuff with Homebrew (http://brew.sh), and > they use iTerm2 (http://iterm2.com)... The people one individual knows personally is quite a small sample. I am talking about a broader view. > > Or do you have some concrete example I do not grasp at the moment? > > At least the people I know who are using OSX do not even know what a > > terminal emulator is, let alone that there is one on their machines. > > Out of curiosity, where do you live? In NYC, you'll see coffeeshops > filled with people on a Mac that have no idea what a terminal emulator > is, but any of the developers in that same coffeeshop, will still be > on a Mac. > > > When they look at my desktop they say things like > > > > Oh, it's broken. Do you think you can fix it? You are a nerd, > > right? > > Eh. I'm guessing even some developers would say the same thing. they should be fired instantly. > They'd understand that you have terminal emulators open, but would be > confused as to why there are no decorations around windows, or no task > bar, or system tray, or any of the other things that modern, "usable" > desktop UIs tell us we should have. Again, they should be fired instantly. Kind regards, -Alex
