umbraroze

umbraroze, 1 year ago

Yeah, there's an important distinction. Just because you could use Linux doesn't mean you can at any particular moment.

I don't really do music production; I'm more into writing and visual arts and photography. I could do all of those things on Linux and be perfectly productive. But there's a difference between being productive and being optimal. My current process happens to be based on software that runs on Windows. (Heck, a lot of the software I use already runs on both Windows and Linux, anyways.)

The key here being that you shouldn't lock yourself too much to just one tool and one approach, and that actually goes both ways.

umbraroze, 1 year ago

There are a lot of people who go "I tried to learn X through Duolingo and failed". Sure, that's probably true, because staring at the app is not how language learning works. Much like 100 years ago, people would have said you can't learn a language by reading a single book.

Duolingo is great for basics of the language, vocabulary and constant daily lessons. But you always need more. There's a whole language sphere out there. People actually using the language and whatnot.

I started studying French through Duolingo and about 6 months later I was like "I really need a grammar book and a dictionary, dammit". Year in, I was like "I should try reading news in French and maybe try a book."

umbraroze, 1 year ago

Reminds me of another old joke: "My doctor said I have the lungs of a little old lady. The upside is that I know that little old ladies never die."

umbraroze, 1 year ago

It's funny, the only Linux software I've ever used that was only shipped as binaries was Loki games. Also, the only software that broke after binary compatibility went south. There used to be a giant tarball of old libraries and jiggerypokery that enabled the Loki games to sorta kinda work.

I was kind of sad to see that Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri didn't run too well, but then I tried to play the GOG version on x64 Windows 11 and there are occasional weird issues. So, eh.