<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 07:30, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 06:21 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:<br>
><br>
> A developer is a specific subtype of, and thereby by definition, a<br>
> user? That;s the way I always saw things.<br>
> <br>
> Perhaps part of the problem is that others don't see things this way?<br>
> What else could a developer be if they weren't also a user?<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
in the Ruhr area, for example, ordinary workers who worked on blast<br>
furnaces were well paid if they had ideas that went far beyond the<br>
comprehension of well-trained engineers. These engineers had fairly good<br>
knowledge but no practical experience but were willing to learn from the<br>
uneducated but experienced workers. In the Linux universe there are<br>
developers who only develop their software but do not use it<br>
professionally.<br></blockquote><div><br></div>I certainly get your point. Developers of a specific software may not use that software with a specific need of a specific class of user (perhaps because there is a very large experiential gulf between the two), and so may lack the visceral experience necessary to make that software meet these needs. However, I would ordinarily think developers are rather closer to observing how reasonable it is to create software development environments that are stable enough not to fall like a house or cards whenever some esoteric piece of functionality from an obscure third party appears in their stack after one, say. upgrades one's build tool.<br><div><br></div><div><div>So, your anecdote demonstrates the maxim that everyone has the capacity
to be an idiot, and that because users are a subset of everyone, and
developers are a subset of users, that developers can indeed be idiots
too. People who refuse to recognise that supporting a proliferation of different tools that do almost identical jobs are surely demonstrating the described maxim, yes?</div><div><br></div>I would love to see a reduction in the number of ways to upgrade software in Ubuntu. If not, I think Ubuntu is going to suffer an inevitable reduction in the number of people using it. Although I don't really care how this is done, perhaps Snap is ultimately going to do this. I like Ubuntu, and I'll fall in love with Snap if it promises to relieve me of what I perceive is a phenomenon of unnecessary upgrade crises. I really cannot see any reason, save a desire to run grandpa's PDP-11 Fortran favourites, to support diversity that would only lead to a reduction in Ubuntu's user base. Go Snap! Rah rah rah!<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 07:30, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2023-01-11 at 06:21 +1100, Owen Thomas wrote:<br>
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 22:01, Oliver Grawert <<a href="mailto:ogra@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ogra@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > hi,<br>
> > Am Dienstag, dem 10.01.2023 um 07:33 +0100 schrieb M. Fioretti:<br>
> > \> Cpan to install Perl code, pip to install Python code, gem to<br>
> > install<br>
> > > Ruby code, nodejs for JavaScript and so on.<br>
> > > <br>
> > <br>
> > are you aware that this last paragraph actually makes you a<br>
> > developer<br>
> > and not a user ? <br>
> > <br>
> <br>
> <br>
> A developer is a specific subtype of, and thereby by definition, a<br>
> user? That;s the way I always saw things.<br>
> <br>
> Perhaps part of the problem is that others don't see things this way?<br>
> What else could a developer be if they weren't also a user?<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
in the Ruhr area, for example, ordinary workers who worked on blast<br>
furnaces were well paid if they had ideas that went far beyond the<br>
comprehension of well-trained engineers. These engineers had fairly good<br>
knowledge but no practical experience but were willing to learn from the<br>
uneducated but experienced workers. In the Linux universe there are<br>
developers who only develop their software but do not use it<br>
professionally. They defend their unworldly ideas with unfounded<br>
arguments and unworldly statistics. Do you think that Oliver has a lot<br>
to do with turbines for nuclear power plants? This is easily<br>
recognizable nonsense ramblings. Feedback from users is dragged into the<br>
dirt, look what I wrote and how misleadingly selected he answered.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Ralf<br>
<br>
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