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I was kinda baffled by this too. I like the general idea that they present (you need to pay your own long-tenured engineers higher than market rate cause they actually know more about your own system), but this idea of a formula? What, are you gonna start counting git commits? A formula sounds like a super weird way to solve that problem.

Just look at the engineers that add value in your company and pay them a fair market rate. When someone leaves, find out what salary they get in the new job and ensure all your remaining engineers get at least that amount and adjust as you go along. Something like that perhaps.

The expect lint is really great, been looking forward to that for a while.

Still waiting for more flexible const generics 🤞

Personally I’m a developer, so I care a lot about integrating parts of my development stack. A lot of those things don’t “just work” on Windows, or even Mac, so I’m happy to stick with Linux instead.

I'm also a developer, but I'm also a user, depending on what I'm doing. And this is a very poor excuse for Linux having bad UX.

Linux shouldn't only be for developers, it should be for everyone.

Then again, how many examples are there for things that should “just work” and do on Linux but don’t on Windows?

Maybe some but much, much fewer. It shouldn't be surprising - Microsoft has hundreds if not thousands of people hired specifically for creating working UX and design. Linux just can't compete with that since it's mostly developers working on it and, again, developers unfortunately make for awful UX designers.

I don't think external monitors or a responsive UI is a matter of "perspective". These are things that should just work, always, for everyone.

What are the examples you are thinking of btw?

I've previously posted a few examples:

Two 4k external monitors through a docking station - Why is this seemingly effortless for Windows but basically impossible for Linux?

Is there a way to keep Linux responsive when at ~100% CPU usage?

I also regularly have my window manager crash when inserting my laptop into my docking station. Happens maybe 20% of the time. Sometimes even when it works the display scaling makes things blurry until I reset the scaling from 150% back to 100% and back again, then it's fine. Add to this a few annoyances with UI, but these are more forgivable.

There's all kinds of these small problems that compound to just make for a much worse experience. It doesn't just work but it needs to if it really wants to provide a viable alternative to normal people.

Keep in mind, I am not a "normal person" - I am a professional software engineer and I still find all this stuff super annoying.

Yes but it has subpar user experience. But there is no reason you can't have both, that's what I'm saying.

No it's not. Good user experience should also allow for extensive customization. There is nothing mutually exclusive about these things.

What do you mean?

Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up.

Guy says this as if it's a good thing lol. That's the real reason people don't use Linux, nobody making Linux seems to care about user experience for normal people.

Knowing whether it may snow or rain depending on whether you are below or above 0 is very useful though. 0 and 100 are only intuitive because you're used to those numbers. -20 bring very cold and 40 being very hot is just as easy.

The Talos Principle. It's my all time favourite game. It has a sequel too that expands on the story.

It's a puzzle game with a story that you discover while solving the puzzles. It's kinda similar to Portal in that sense but instead of a focus on comedy, there's a focus on philosophy. If you don't mind reading some philosophical texts and being asked questions that will literally make you question your own value system, then definitely give it a shot.

A plain 400 without explanation is definitely not great UX. But for something like 403, not specifying the error may be intentional for security reasons.