I could get by using only Emacs + Browser but the Linux desktop experience suck so much that it's still impractical to make the switch.
I do not want to update my system + pkgs too often. IT SUCKS. I do not need your 0.0000001% improvement. I want to update only when I really want it and I want to update only WHAT I want. I do not want to download XY MBs of dependencies. THAT SUCKS.
I do not want to care about battery, UI sluggishness or your "kernel-glibc-latest-package" incompatibility nonsense. I do not care about your "free-open-source-whatever-god-you-believe-in". I also love unified feel of apps on my Mac. They work more or less the same. I also do not want to CONFIGURE anything. I want the "best" settings out of the box. My laptop is not my server and I am tired of configuring and tweaking. Make it work. Make it convenient to edit it in GUI. I do not want to use cli when I do not have to. And If I have to I want to edit files not use your "nih-syndrome-commands". I want to edit only a single file and make your app pick up the change so I do not have to care about "how" and in what order I have to restart it.
Make the default gui+uikit beatiful, integrate with something like electron -> profit $$$
Jaw dropping.
I as a European born in a not so fortunate part of Europe (EE) have to really admire America. Americans deliver. Cocky europeans keep on whining how much culture and quality of life they have but at the end of the day they are just insecure about themselves.
1/5 of my countrymen, more than a 1m people escaped from communism to this great country.
* DISCLAIMER : I am aware it's not all wine and roses ;)
Dude. I have worked with UNIX like systems most of my prof. career. I have migrated to the "dark'side just recently (3 y ago).
They are both just tools to get the job done.
Brilliant answer :-). I totally agree with you. But this is the problem..you cannot implement such a thing to a tool like sysadminarena.
Actually I believe being a sysops/devops or whatever you want to call it is one of the "most" challenging jobs in the IT industry. You get zillions of technologies you have to administer and maintain but it's impossible to master all of them. What makes a good admin is the ability to learn,adapt,ask for a help and knowing where to look for an answer. It's easy to look up the parameters if you know the fundamentals.
Interviewing for me as a devops person is one of the most frustrating experiences. You are often asked questions that are specific to the environment of a company you are interviewing with. It's unbelievable how many times I've been asked about parameters of tar, du etc. It's totally stupid.
And imagine interviewing with a company that uses only a specific subset of technologies and they heavily emphasize on that.
Sorry I have to disagree here as well. I do not think the time or number of commands or typos should be measured. I do not think you can do any quantification here.
I believe a lot of sysadmins (talking about unix) do w;uptime;inspect syslog as soon as they connect to the system. Most of the time it's just not necessary to do this but for a lot of sysadmins it's a habit that actually saved their asses several times.
Does it make sense for a sysadmin to know a numeric notation for chmod ? Probably. Would I ask that on an interview ? Nope
If you need to ask why then you have probably never worked in a heterogeneous environment.
I strongly disagree. We should not test edge cases and specific scenarios. We are trying to test the candidate and his abilities in daily tasks. If I say I use vi instead of "commands" I will probably solve most of the "text" editing tasks faster than an admin that only knows how to get around using commands.
I can come up with tons of scenarios when where you do not really know the internals you can get stuck easily. Like if I do chmod -x on the chmod binary. Does it prove anything if the candidate is not able to solve such task ?
Please allow me my honesty but that's a stupid way of thinking about candidates and the roles. Or I do not get it.
So you are basically going to judge the candidate based on what criteria ? If they use vi instead of cat to append to a file ?
So decide what is the best way of solving the problem ? Or you give +1pt for using tail instead of opening the whole file in VI ?
Are you aware of the fact that there are many types of systems and products that sysadmins use ? They do not behave the same. It makes no sense to use "top" on Solaris even the number for "uptime" reported by Solaris are different.
What about Windows sysadmins ? What about stuff like Veritas ? What about docker ?
Why ? It's impossible to create a super secure device. In that case we could punish entire nations for screwing up the securities of airports, nuclear plants or whatever. Cuz you know it's relatively simple to trigger havoc. Fortunately the world is not full of lunatics.
This is not the problem. You will get the top 1-5% anyway if they decide they want to move to the US.
USA needs to stop this "middle-class-men" brain drain from other countries. It is for your own and the rest of the world good. You guys need to start training the newbies otherwise you will end up just creating more isolated groups of people.
I do not think a backwards religions have a place in our society anymore. I am for outlawing public display of religion beliefs (christians crosses, islamic burqas, jewish hats and so on).
Not all of our countries are multicultural and I do not see a reason to force something on these countries. It IS NOT BAD for keeping your country WHITE. IT IS NOT BAD FOR BEING WHITE MALE AND HETEROSEXUAL.
Positive discrimination towards minorities is BAD.
We in Europe have outlawed Nazi symbols and so on. I do not want some fanatics to have power over the modern society we live in.
You can practice your religion at home and at the places you build without the help of the state.
I am so shocked you call this poorly. Well I am sure americans are used seeing incredibly big numbers but for me this is hardly something I would call a poorly results.
Gosh...the entire company has more money than some countries.
I do not want to care about battery, UI sluggishness or your "kernel-glibc-latest-package" incompatibility nonsense. I do not care about your "free-open-source-whatever-god-you-believe-in". I also love unified feel of apps on my Mac. They work more or less the same. I also do not want to CONFIGURE anything. I want the "best" settings out of the box. My laptop is not my server and I am tired of configuring and tweaking. Make it work. Make it convenient to edit it in GUI. I do not want to use cli when I do not have to. And If I have to I want to edit files not use your "nih-syndrome-commands". I want to edit only a single file and make your app pick up the change so I do not have to care about "how" and in what order I have to restart it.
Make the default gui+uikit beatiful, integrate with something like electron -> profit $$$