Ubuntu installers?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 15:23 +0100, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 12:00:11 PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > > Cpan to install Perl code, pip to install Python code, gem to install
> > > Ruby code, nodejs for JavaScript and so on.
> > 
> > are you aware that this last paragraph actually makes you a developer
> > and not a user ?
> 
> Call me an *advanced* Ubuntu user, if you must. A developer, surely I
> am not. Never been, never could.

The term is "power user", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_user .

Speaking for myself, building packages, writing scripts, being able to
solder, being a former 6502 assembler language expert who also wrote
Turbo C software on an Atari ST with a 80286 hardware emulator or who
wrote a MIDI sound sampler for the C64 etc. doesn't make me in 2023 a
developer. I'm only developing digital photos, even not analog photos
anymore, I'm even not developing a single layer PCB anymore, let alone
that I write even two lines of code in BASIC, Pascal, Turbo C or some
ancient assembler languages anymore. However, I get in contact with
cpan, pip and friends if only for building a package by using control
and rule files somebody else wrote or more likely by using a PKGBUILD
somebody else wrote.

My Atari ST, https://i.imgur.com/lx5pucp.jpg , the 512 KiB RAM were
replaced by 4096 KiB of very old and slow PC RAM by wild wiring, with
help of a community that wasn't connected by the internet. I made a lot
by myself, but it wasn't done everything by myself. The TOS ROM was
replaced, an Intel hardware emulator was added, developed and ready
built by somebody who sold it, not by myself, just the piggybacking
soldering has to done by the users. The inside of my C64 looks the same.
I've got probably way more understanding of the whole domain than young
software developer have got, but I stopped developing anything decades
ago. So I'm not a developer. Today I stick together my PC like a lego
kit.

It might be similar for M. Fioretti, the "*advanced* Ubuntu user".

In-depth knowledge doesn't mean you're a developer.