during the long learning curve, one is usually grossly underpaid and sometimes scammed and or cheated.

See, that’s the issue on such sites. Posters want a whole (e.g. e-commerce) project done for $100 because, “it won’t take long” and then challenge your quotes with “well, I can get someone in bum|f*ck|land to do it for $100…”. A game I don’t want to play.

And sticking around and building a rep for a year is difficult when such sites have lots of scammers and sock accounts actively challenging you to make you look bad and their other alt accounts look good.

You’re going to be horrified to discover the software versions the military use.

Debian SID?

less hard than running debian or redhat back in the 90s

Zoomers will never know the pain… and the joy and actually getting it installed!

Stable means not updated.

Oh no! I haven’t got the latest push from 30 seconds ago. My operating system is so out of date and I’m so uncool!!11

nvidia GPU

No flavour of Linux works well with them. That’s the joke or something.

If someone is accepting the fact that shit might go sideways, is willing to learn through experiencing issues first-hand or simply likes to spend time fiddling with their OS to find the perfect setup for them - that should be the Arch- and Arch-derivatives audience.

But once you leave the comfort of your parents house, time is money and no one has a spare twelve hours to get a functional OS together when another distro would do it in minutes.

Although Ive been using linux for 2 years now, and i still want an installation manager with sane defaults.

Have you heard about our Lord and Saviour, Debian?

I remember installing Debian before Ubuntu was born using an ncurses type interface and spending five minutes selecting the packages I want to install, (only for it to tell me that one package was incompatible with another and the installation couldn’t proceed!) but being able to do it somewhat graphically made it so much easier than simply by text.

An OS stays out of your way and lets you do what you need to do. Having to essentially create the basics is unproductive and a waste of the user’s time.

I’m pretty sure “Power users” don’t use Ubuntu.

I get this, but an IDE should be invisible and grow as you do and not require you to learn lots of janky things before it becomes a little bit useful for you.

Need the basics, great, here they are. Don’t understand some advanced feature? Well the IDE has it here, but it isn’t in your way, mess with it as and when you want. It’ll still be there.

I don’t think one IDE does everything for different languages and its ok to swap editors depending on your workflow, your project and your ever-changing skillset.