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I do freelance/consultation dev work and I’d say most of my clients are having this problem right now. But this is a problem of their own doing. Most got rid of their dev teams and instead leveraged AI and less than a handful of junior devs to essentially just be prompt monkeys. I eventually get called into these places to code review the slop that got churned out and the majority of the time the solution is to start from scratch without heavily utilizing LLM’s that got them into this situation in the first place. The problem is though they now need to hire competent senior level devs again. But they can’t.

They place ads on linkedin, indeed, etc and then get absolutely hammered with resumes written by AI. The vast majority of which are resumes from people that are either incredibly unqualified or are from like India. They again had to stop using AI to read them because naturally it’s just pulling the bullshit from the pile of bullshit it’s being fed. The ACTUAL devs that are applying get lost in the shuffle. Now they have to manually comb through all the resumes and verify that they’re not AI crap before even attempting to read it.

So it wouldn’t surprise me if places are just giving up and no one is getting hired. I can speak for myself and other consultants I personally know that we’re having to turn down work because we’re booked solid and don’t have the time. I’ve run out of people to refer jobs to cause we’re all in the same boat.

The industry axed a metric shit ton of people and now needs them back and they simply can’t find them.

honestly any distro you want. Try a few out. Load a bunch of live ISO’s on a usb drive and give them a spin. Distro hop until you find one you really like. that’s the beauty of Linux they’re all pretty easy to set up (hell even Arch is easy to set up now) so you can try a bunch of different ones.

You want to tinker and play around with your system? try an Arch based distro. You want something that has great support and will just work out of the box? try an Ubuntu one. Want something really unique that you can take with you where ever you go? give NixOS a shot. There are a ton of options and they’re all pretty good.

I would suggest you get one that’s arch based, one fedora, one ubuntu, maybe nixos, one debian, etc and see which one you like best.

shit all you have to do is try to update/upgrade the thing and it’s like rolling the dice if it’ll bork your system or not so they’ve done an excellent job in people hating them for that one reason.

without fail whenever they roll out an update you’ll see threads on mastodon or bluesky with people saying “welp, my Ubuntu is fucked” after an update.

I mean…why? you said yourself there’s paid stuff that you’re not going to use so just use soulseek if you’re going to be downloading anyways.

I dont’ use any music streaming service because the artists get paid peanuts and won’t see my dime when I use them. so i’ll support them more directly. Take your money, buy your favourite artists shirt or other merch.

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weird requirements for sure. sounds like they want an investigative journalist that also has a few years of web development under their belt which is…an odd mix to say the least.

good luck to them I guess. they’re going to get either journalists or web developers applying but doubt they’ll get they’re magical Clark Kent that takes their glasses off and then becomes Web Developer Man.

he said he never heard of Nix or NixOS. that’s it. it’s a dumb article that just poorly sums up a few youtube videos of his talk.

It’s pretty much the best and only option for KDE but even then it’s very janky. COSMIC is going to be the best option for this but again, you’re then sacrificing the customization you’d get with Plasma.

And that sums up Linux DEs/WMs. If there’s something you want you’ll have to sacrifice something else. because there are NO DEs/WMs out there that will have everything you want in one package unless you build it yourself.

…unless you’re MaoMaoWM and you’re the dev who just said “fuck it, I’m including everything”

blame the devs for that. There was an git issue a year or so ago about just that. a user asked for tiling, many other users chimed in and said “yes, please” the KDE devs said “no, we personally don’t like or use tiling so you’re not going to have it either.” Which essentially sums up KDE development. IF they don’t use or like something than neither will you.

eh I’m going to take a wait and see approach.

The early alpha versions of COSMIC I really liked but over time with each new Alpha release it just felt…off? like kinda leaning into GNOME “please don’t actually customize me” territory? and there were a couple keybinds that just weren’t there. also it felt like it was getting slower with each release.

That being said I think if you just want a very simple DE with the option of good tiling then COSMIC is the way to go. It’s been awhile since I tried one of the previous alphas so if his release really is the shit then I might consider switching my WM to it.

it depends.

I’m old enough to remember when PC demos were a thing and essentially if a demo didn’t exist, the game likely wouldn’t sell well. Hell there used to be entire websites that ONLY had demos for download of upcoming releases. So now game companies don’t do demos anymore, I pirate the games as a demo. If it’s something I think I’ll play through and come back to in a month or two or even a year then I’ll buy it. If it’s an indie dev I’ll buy it because I want to support them.

If it’s something I’m no likely to finish or will finish and never pick it up again, high seas.

Music is different. I just soulseek everything. I’m not paying some crappy streaming service to then provide pennies to the artist. I can support artists I like via other means. Merch sales, going to concerts, etc that’s where they get their money.

TV and movies? fuck em. I’m not paying for that crap when 9 times out of 10 something that I like is just going to get cancelled after 2 seasons. They don’t need my money.

Books? nope, always pay for those.

When I first moved to linux I used Mint for a week and then moved to something else. As always by EVERYONE it was suggested to me as a “starter” distro and I really wish people would stop doing that.

I, like you, had issues with it. Sound issues, Wifi issues, GPU issues, and doing personal research and digging the consensus was always “it’s an issue with Mint.” I was about to go back to Windows 11 cause I was like “none of this linux shit works”

THEN I decided to try a different distro, CachyOS, and suddenly the sound was fixed, the wifi didn’t randomly drop out, and my GPU worked flawlessly. I’ve distro hopped since then and those Mint/Ubuntu issues never came back.

Try something other than Mint. if you still have the issues go back to Windows.