points by gadders 12 hours ago | 0 comments
"I'm a mechanic and I hand forge new spanners every time I work on a car."
Cool story bro, but surely your time is worth too much to spend it fiddling about linux and command lines.
Cool story bro, but surely your time is worth too much to spend it fiddling about linux and command lines.
I know a lot of open source software is a pain in the ass, but so is a lot of proprietary software. You use what you know, understand, and can support.
> "I'm a mechanic and I hand forge new spanners every time I work on a car."
This is a bad analogy. It's not like he's writing new software every time he has to do something. It's more like using tools that your machinist friends built.