• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    While this is true, learning some kind of programming - shell scripting or BASIC in olden days - is a very useful endeavor.

    It’s very convenient for everyone to be able to automate their work.

    And it’s not particularly different from cooking something once in a while.

    Not required at all to use Linux, of course.

    Though for operating systems … People here for whatever reason downvote things they fear, but even OpenBSD is simple enough. It does require using shell, but as compared to any other desktop OS I touched that’s just really negligible and is usually a copy-paste from FAQ.

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      2 months ago

      While this is true, learning some kind of programming - shell scripting or BASIC in olden days - is a very useful endeavor.

      And learning sewing is useful, but I dont need it to wear clothes.

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        2 months ago

        It’s not comparable to sewing. That would be learning C++ and Qt.

        It’s comparable to making a sandwich.

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          2 months ago

          No, making a sandwich is more effort equivalent to sending an email, or maybe adding items to a shopping site cart and buying them. Both are fairly intuitive and don’t involve memorizing weird commands like “ls” and “cd” (“cd? But my computer doesn’t even have a CD drive!”).

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            2 months ago

            Golly.

            C++ and QT is programming comparable to hard things in life.

            Shell scripting is programming comparable to usual things in life.

            Capisce?