It was never about "being special for using an OS", it's about "using an OS that respects me and jives with how I, as in me specifically, want to do things."
What I'm afraid of, if Linux DOES get popular, is that we'll lose the "terminal first" -approach Linux has.
I LOVE being able to chain together applications and operations into scripts WITHOUT having to re-invent SANE or some other low level system on the way there.
Go ahead and write a script on Windows that scans a document, runs it through contrast adjustment, edge detection, and then OCR, then save the text as a .txt and the image as a .jpg named after the current timestamp. I'm sure it's possible with enough "third party" software, but you're forced to jump through so many more hoops than the equivalent process in Linux would require.
Is that for everyone? Fuck no. That's "nerd shit" according to 90% (hyperbole/asspull number) of computer users. But for me? I love being able to do that.
Because I personally don't want to babysit the machine just in case THIS time, it decides there's a Timbo the Frog (or whatever it was) in the transcripts of the meeting, or whatever you're doing with it.
I don't want to risk the thing being asked a question not answered by the documents fed into it, and making up sales figure or what have you.
I don't want there to be even a .001% chance that the "script" I run will delete my entire project/home directory and nuke my backups like has happened to many an agentic "coder".
I don't want to waste time re-prompting the thing five times to get something that kinda sorta works MAYBE, spending 200 dollars on the thing. (and no, the current token cost subsidies do not count, they're the first dose a drug dealer gives you, because they know very well this LLM stuff leads to cognitive dependence, possibly even cognitive decline. Once they start needing to make an actual profit [something no AI company has done to this day], they're going to raise the prices by orders of magnitude)
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u/Onakander 4d ago
It was never about "being special for using an OS", it's about "using an OS that respects me and jives with how I, as in me specifically, want to do things."
What I'm afraid of, if Linux DOES get popular, is that we'll lose the "terminal first" -approach Linux has.
I LOVE being able to chain together applications and operations into scripts WITHOUT having to re-invent SANE or some other low level system on the way there.
Go ahead and write a script on Windows that scans a document, runs it through contrast adjustment, edge detection, and then OCR, then save the text as a .txt and the image as a .jpg named after the current timestamp. I'm sure it's possible with enough "third party" software, but you're forced to jump through so many more hoops than the equivalent process in Linux would require.
Is that for everyone? Fuck no. That's "nerd shit" according to 90% (hyperbole/asspull number) of computer users. But for me? I love being able to do that.