• wakko@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Oh look. Yet another post demanding things from a volunteer-based community without actually volunteering their own time to work on solving the problem they’re insisting needs solving.

    I’m sure these demands will totally make a difference in ways that putting their time into actually writing code wouldn’t.

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      14 hours ago

      I think it should be encouraged for non technical users to share their insights regarding UI/UX. People who are skilled in building applications often don’t have great skills in that area anyway. Actual UI/UX specialists are even harder to come by it seems.

      The issue with this video is that it doesn’t bring in a ton of new insight. Issues regarding the variety of package management solutions are well know for example, and some distros are already solving this by having system packages and flatpaks managed by the same installer.

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      16 hours ago

      By that logic I should demand to get payed for testing your “free” software in real environment

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        21 hours ago

        ROFL. Kiddo, I’ve been contributing to OSS for over two decades. The day I start caring about what non-contributors think is the day I stop writing code. Either show up with patches or STFU.

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            13 hours ago

            You’re both being silly. Ones a gatekeeper, ones a name caller

            Want to know what’s wrong with Linux? The community.

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              4 hours ago

              Definitely silly but im tired of trying to explain something especially when they act like that and I know they arent going to listen. They can simply get name called. People dont like that but its simply not my obligation.

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              11 hours ago

              We really gonna pretend the name caller is as bad as the guy with the opinion that “critics are useless and should just learn how to do the thing the critique”? Cuz that’s a classic shitty opinion

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              6 hours ago

              Nobody is gatekeeping. One of us is asserting that there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

              The features being requested do not come for free. Someone has to sink the time into doing the work.

              So, in an argument between people doing the work and people insisting someone else do the work for them, but it must be to the specifications of the armchair quarterbacks… well… I’ve got bad news about the things the non-paying non-coders want.

              You can either pay money or pay time, but nobody cares about the freeloaders demanding things without offering any kind of compensation.