Solution: install windows for them, but complain and evangelize at every opportunity. You'll be so insufferable they'll never ask you again.

I swear. If they start adding 'open' and 'free' to their buzzword salad...

The secret to success in software engineering:

1. Lie and say that there is
2. Write or use a conversion algorithm
3. Boss won't know the difference
4. Collect bonus at performance evaluation
5. Put "AI engineer" on resume

windows 11 isn' all bad. It made my mother ask me to install linux on her computer.

SO in a nutshell:

"I need to do X"

"Have you tried Y?"

"No, because I don't need Y, I need X."

"Well you can do Z if you can't do Y."

"OK, sure. But how do I do X?"

"Why do you need to do X?"

(Explains why in my hyper-specific situation, I need to do X, and Y and Z won't work)

This question has been marked as a duplicate of "How to do Y"

oh, well then that explains why Python is a joke.

But what if... I took Debian, and disguised it as my own distro? Ho ho ho! Delightfuly devilish, Seymore!

I've heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

Seat 2. The guy in seat 1 already uses Linux, so someone ought to tell the wolves.

We've come a long way. Once upon a time, It might've said "Linux is only free if you don't value your time."

"Dear floss4life,

Our developers have encountered an issue while using the open source framework you published on github. We have lost as many as 400 user accounts. The estimated cost of this error is $6800.

This is unacceptable. Be a professional and fix it immediately.

Chad Elkowitz, MBA, Gruvbert and sons Finance Lt"

I TA for an electrical engineering class. It's amusing, to look at student's code these days. Everything is so needlessly wrapped up in 3-line functions, students keep trying to do in 25 lines what can be done in 2, and it all becomes impossible to debug.

When their code inevitably breaks, they ask me to tell them why it isn't working. My response is to ask them what its meant to be doing, but they can't answer, because they don't know.

The sad thing is we try to make it easy on them. Their assignment specs are filled with tips, tricks, hints, warnings, and even pseudo-code for the more confusing algorithms. But these days, students would rather prompt chatgpt than read docs.

I've never seen chatgpt ever benefit a student. Either it misunderstands and just confuses the student with nonsense code and functions, or else in rare cases it does its job too well and the students don't end up learning anything. The department has collectively decided to ban it and all other genAI chatbots starting next semester.

They clearly don't consider their human capital to be all that important if they're relagating hiring to ai. Take it as a signal that your value is too high for this company. Chaces are they would prefer to hire 2 year grads or bootcampers over experienced engineers.

Welll first you draw this head...

The way everyone talked about Linux, I thought it would be a transient interest I would eventually tire of. I've known a lot of professors who say they liked Linux back in the 90s, but decided they couldn't keep up with it, and have gone back to windows/apple.

I never anticipated that 4 years ago, when I booted up Linux for the first time, that it would also be the last time I shut down Windows. Furthermore, the likelihood of me ever going back seems to be getting smaller and smaller every day.

Sure python may be easier to learn, but it makes learning actual programming more difficult. Ever since the CS department switched to python, my workload as a computer systems TA has doubled.

This is an affront to nature. Comments shouldn't even make it past the scanner.

Why C 'hackers'? Why not just regular C users?

The longer I use Linux, the harder it becomes to see where windows users are coming from. Its gotten to the point where seeing people use windows in public feels incomprehensible to me, like watching people go to work on a pogo stick instead of a car.

Stuff like this is the reason Linus decided to take a sabbatical back in 2018 to work on controlling his temper.