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To be fair, software in general is a complete shit show. The amount of things that don’t “just work” are staggering. Then we built 10 or 20 shaky layers of abstraction, one upon the other, until we ended up with the computing landscape of 2021. I tried gettin a Radeon driver to work on a laptop running ubuntu recently. What a disaster. Getting stuck in dependency hell, strange compiler errors, seg faults. Bleh. I gave up after 3 days of messing with it. Sadly this is a very common experience. It was more economical to just buy a macbook and move on with my life. So I do feel bad for this guy and see where he is coming from. But software and the ecosystems around them are just so bad.


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