Maybe you’ve been sold a bit of a lie.

Linux is not like Windows. Linux will never be like Windows. It is first and foremost a general operating system, not necessarily a Desktop operating system.

IMO, that means you will never truly be able to completely avoid using the terminal here or there.

Telling people that it’s easy to switch from Windows to Linux is just not true. Linux just works differently and going in with the expectation that things will work the same way only serves to disappoint those brave enough to attempt the switch.

If you try again, go in with the mindset that you’ve never used a computer before, and without needing to depend on Linux for your day to day computer work. See it as a tinkering side project, and maybe it will stoke your curiosity enough that you’ll want to use it day to day.

can’t we all just enjoy the frog without associating it with any politics

Except when a bug pops up somewhere. Ownership/Responsibility changes in sub-Planck-second time when assigning blame.

Sveltekit is the fullstack/SSR version of svelte (like next is for react or nuxt is for vue). I reckon learning one of them might be helpful to learn component-based SSR and its benefits, personally I do think they have a firm place in the future of webapps.

Vite I can highly recommend, it’s the best, fastest and least fussy bundler/builder I have ever used hands down (having used webpack briefly and packer for a while). Has some great features and is less of a pain to configure and get to work in my experience.

The CLI is scriptable/automatable and unambiguous when sharing instructions with coworkers. Both of these things make it very useful to know the commands. I do agree that it helps in some situations to visualize what is going on with a GUI/TUI though (neogit for nvim or magit for emacs are great if anyone is wondering), it can make things clearer at a glance.

And how does that work? How do you unmount the root directory of a live system and invoke a script?

But… But :x is superior because it doesn’t overwrite unchanged files with a new modified date :(

Yeah this has been my experience too, I graduated a year too late >.< I’ve already invested so much time learning web dev, I can’t give up now. But I wonder how long it will take to find anyone who’ll hire me.

Man I needed to hear this. Thank you! I feel you’re right but there is so much doom and gloom reprting floating around in the headlines, YouTube and the internet. Trying not to get disheartened looking for my first employment as a dev.

Nextcloud is a FOSS fork of OwnCloud. Both projects are great in their own way, hugely successful and serve a lot of people very well. They just moved in different directions.

This is just one example of many. Ability to fork is super important to ensure that projects stay open source, like in this example.