nixCraft 🐧Which opensource software does everyone use but you absolutely loathe it?
David O'BrienGit.
Phil Haigh (I’m not the king)@nixCraft @iamdavidobrien this is SO right.
Bakunin Boys@nixCraft @iamdavidobrien in its defense, read the first line of `man git`.
It fucking sucks.
Sarah, The Website Therapist@iamdavidobrien @nixCraft even understanding the graph theory doesn’t help at all with understanding the command or why common tasks are broken down into the steps git uses. I’m so appreciative of lazygit for making it a bit easier.
Ollie 🇪🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦@nixCraft Mozilla Firefox
Edit: And yes, I use it ☹️
Tobias Weibel
Michael Knudsen
Markus Peuhkuri
Asterisk 🇨🇦The job control i.e. service files are good – I can say this service needs to start after network is up but before this another service is run. It works nicely.
What bugs me, are the half-working versions of support programs replacing battle-tested utilities. Sure, the issue may be with distros introduce those too early when they are not mature enough, just manure.
@asterisk @nixCraft
What bugs me, are the half-working versions of support programs replacing battle-tested utilities. Sure, the issue may be with distros introduce those too early when they are not mature enough, just manure.
@asterisk @nixCraft
Jeroen Baten
Involture
Fabien Dupont
Cryptolatios@nixCraft JavaScript
Thomas Adam
Ian@nixCraft electron and chromoid browsers
b-loved dreamer@nixCraft Nextcloud. Not everyone uses it but plenty swear by it. I won’t touch it again with a ten-foot pole.
Street | Train 🇷🇴 
Unlogic@wststreet @mrzool @nixCraft your bonus with next cloud is that files are stored in a normal file system unlike seafile. But next cloud is slow and janky at times. I've used it only for file storage/Dropbox replacement. Now I just use Syncthing
@wststreet Syncthing kinda works like dropbox bit each synced node has all the data local. So it's not cloud storage as such as data is stored on each sync node. If you want cloud storage the next cloud will do a decent job and you can mount storage locally too (like Dropbox)
ariedov
Nick Saccente
Thomas Dorr@nixCraft
Chromium Engine and Derivatives
Chromium Engine and Derivatives
DistroWatch@nixCraft systemd and git. They are nearly everywhere I need to collaborate with other people/teams and it is always painful. Always find it weird these projects became more popular than the better alternatives.
Melroy van den Berg@distrowatch @nixCraft to be honest I kinda like git. At least it's much better than svn or clearcase..!
Mark
⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️@melroy @distrowatch @nixCraft svn never fucked itself so badly I had to delete my local copy, download a fresh one, and manually make my changes again. Git does this several times a year.
pinguino@falken @melroy @distrowatch @nixCraft
I'm so happy to hear I'm not the only one.
I remember when I was learning git everybody said it was super flexible and you could recover from any mistake you made. This may be true but what they don't tell you is that usually it's a lot easier to start from 0 again.
@pinguino @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft I'm curious what you did that require you to fully need to delete and do a new git clone.
Maybe skill issue 😏?
@melroy @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft
Forgot to gpg sign a commit. Tried some of the solutions I found on the web but none worked and they totally messed my branch.
At the end I just deleted everything, started again from zero and just pasted my new code.
@pinguino @falken @distrowatch @nixCraft if you just want to sign the most recent commit:
git commit -S --amend
dasJot
Justine Smithies
Silmathoron ⁂@distrowatch what do cvs and svn do differently, compared to git?
(not sure what you mean by "writing every change by hand and printing copies of the source as a backup")
@justine @nixCraft
(not sure what you mean by "writing every change by hand and printing copies of the source as a backup")
@justine @nixCraft
@silmathoron @justine @nixCraft cvs and svn are entirely different models for source control.
By "writing changes by hand and printing copies" I mean exactly that, literally. Typing every code (instead of patches) and then printing hard copies of the code for archival.
Gary "grim" Kramlich
Álvaro Herrera
GarretSidzaka@distrowatch @nixCraft
I feel basically afraid to use git in its capacity for rollbacks so I avoid really doing anything risky with branches.
I feel basically afraid to use git in its capacity for rollbacks so I avoid really doing anything risky with branches.
Stephane Audic . For Hire
choan 🍉
Seth Jones@nixCraft
Current gnome
Current gnome
Susan Calvin@nixCraft Firefox?
jwc@nixCraft Pretty mixed feelings about GNU Make lately. And bitbake, that too.
@nixCraft svxlink is kinda ticking me off at the moment.
Peter Krefting@nixCraft rpm, and especially rpmbuild
Tim Chasebash, JavaScript/Node, and PHP, all for the same reason: they're horrible and warty, but ubiquitous
BigLinter@nixCraft either neovim or docker
1. why would anyone use a worse copy with super hard configuration and dialect if the original is still alive and kicking?
2. why would anyone bother with a way harder to configure and worse container framework if openvz and lxc are still around and kicking?
do you guys like pain?
Quinn (she/her)Android, chromium, or anything else owned by Google.
Klaus Frank@nixCraft golang and many of the things related to docker or kubernetes...
But not because of the projects themself and more off because of it getting thrown at problems where it absolutely doesn't make sense...
jelte@nixCraft docker
Riley Celeus@nixCraft GIMP. its plugin support is garbage compared to Paint.NET, and its interface makes me wish I used the real Photoshop.
@nixCraft vi text editor. It takes a summer course just to understand it.