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And don't forget RTFM (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] apprehentice@lemmy.enchanted.social 82 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Nah, ditch the mouse. Give them a machine with Arch, BSPWM, and Vim.

[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Arch? You’re way too nica. A bare Debian netinstall and a link to linuxfromscratch. They have wget, so they can get started.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Here. 150,000 transistors. Get to work.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I just use homemade integrated circuits on a huge self-built circuit board, myself. I guess some of you need a lot of hand holding.

[–] JATtho@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

And you have bootstrapped an B compiler on that?

[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I recently sat in a call with someone ~50 y/o helping someone ~25 y/o.....

"Open vim and change xyz" met with "What's vim...?"

I don't think I've ever laughed so hard while feeling overwhelming sadness at the same time 😖

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean... Young people don't know things yet... Isn't that normal?

I get feeling existential about the passage of time, but... Sad? Laughing? Maybe I'm imagining it wrong, but I dunno. Maybe I'm just the young person in this occasion.

[–] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I mean… Young people don’t know things yet… Isn’t that normal?

Depends on the context I guess. If this is a professional IT context in which the 25yo is expected to be proficient enough on a Linux system to edit a text file, not knowing that vim exists is kinda sad.

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

... I don't know if I'd call it sad, as much as kinda baffling. Vim was on every package manager list I've seen, under text editors... Big stylised letters, how does one miss that?

I feel like it's someone who only uses Linux specifically for (and because of) their work, and has probably never tinkered and casually browsed around in it.

Yeah, I can see how that can be sad, like a person who doesn't actually share your culture/hobby after all.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

Nono, make them build linux from scratch while staring deeply into their eyes

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

BSPWM

What if that's not my kink?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

It's slightly less painful than having a beautiful woman walk on your testicles with high heels.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Oh, is that supposed to be a mouse? I thought it was a hand grenade.