I see there's some sort of "how's Linux now" discourse going around Mastodon and so I'll give my brief summary:
To be blunt, Linux is just the least-shit option to run on your PC nowadays lol.
If you want a good start, try Kubuntu https://kubuntu.org/, I get along great with it. Familiar interface, without all the shovelled shit Microsoft constantly try to force on you. Same KDE Plasma interface Valve use for Steam Deck's Desktop Mode.
Me, feeding 2 people and 2 cats on a 60k EUR salary without benefits (because technically self-employed), reading those comments that claim a 501(c)(3) is some kind of nefarious scheme to hide money 😐
@nixCraft I've been using #vim for 20 years (now using #neovim ). It's still lean and mean when used "vanilla". However, if I enable the autocomplete, autocompile, auto spellcheck, treesitter, folding, etc. then it noticeably takes up CPU as I type. I don't mind paying some CPU for this...
But for eyecandy I really couldn't care less. Loved my keyboard only #fvwm setup. When I switched to #wayland I finally gave up fvwm for #kde . Happily, kde is lean and fast even with eye candy...
If a high school drop-out like me can learn how to code, what is stopping you?
Seriously though, I'm living proof that a gay, indigenous, high school dropout from redneck Alberta can defy all odds and practice to become the developer he always dreamed of.
German mathematician Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882.
One of her most significant contributions is Noether's Theorem, which establishes a fundamental connection between symmetries & conservation laws in physics. This theorem has had profound implications in fields such as quantum mechanics, particle physics & field theory. Despite facing discrimination as a woman in academia during her time, Noether persevered & made enduring contributions to mathematics and physics.
The philosophical faculty objected to Northers appointment and she spent four years lecturing under Hilbert's name. She wasn't paid by the University for a number of years. After Nazi Germany rescended her position, she joined Moscow state.
#OTD 1616. Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
In 1610, he published his Sidereus Nuncius, describing the observations that he had made with his new, much stronger telescope, amongst them, the Galilean moons of Jupiter. With these observations and additional observations that followed, he promoted the heliocentric theory of Copernicus published in De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.
French mathematician and philosopher René Descartes died #OTD in 1650.
He is considered one of the founders of modern philosophy. He was the founder of the system of sciences on the knowing subject facing the world he represents to himself. In physics, he made a contribution to optics and is considered one of the founders of mechanism. In mathematics, he was at the origin of analytic geometry. via @wikipedia
And noticing that this truth: I think, therefore I am, was so firm and so assured that all the most extravagant suppositions of the skeptics were not capable of shaking it, I judged that I could accept it, without scruple, for the first principle of philosophy, which I was looking for
British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell died #OTD in 1970. He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore, and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica. via @wikipedia
@gutenberg_org@wikipedia Russell is probably best known for his "Barber paradox": If a barber shaves those (and olny those) that do not shave themselves, then does the barber shave himself?
"I found prison in many ways quite agreeable. I had no engagements, no difficult decisions to make, no fear of callers, no interruptions to my work.
... I was rather interested in my fellow-prisoners, who seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence as was shown by their having been caught."