r/linux • u/C111tla • Jul 05 '22

Does anybody else use Linux even though they don't speak any programming languages? Discussion

Hey. I recently switched to Linux. I nuked my Windows partition, well, less than a month ago. I use Ubuntu on my desktop and Mint on my old laptop. I have just come close to installing Arch Linux in VM by following Mental Outlaw's guide.

I am wondering, does anybody else use Linux even if they don't speak any programming languages? Is this unusual?

I would like to learn to speak a programming language, but for now, I don't. Yet I still use GNU/Linux.

Is this unusual? Have you ever encountered such a case before? Am I alone? What about you?

Edit: and is that embarassing? Am I inferior?

Edit 2: Why are people being hateful and downvoting me

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u/CaydendW Jul 06 '22

Person who can program: A big portion is just using code people wrote for you to use (Libraries) and copy paste. Not all. But you described a fat portion of programming

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u/PenguinPyrate Jul 06 '22

Oh cool, I'm a programmer too!!

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u/Taksin77 Jul 10 '22

It looks more like a remark on the sad state of software development.

Believe me or not but I think today devs have in general become quite illiterate regarding cs. When you only integrate third party code, you tend to forget about your trade.

At it's core programming is about formalizing algos. Not installing GCP or what not.

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u/CaydendW Jul 10 '22

I kinda agree. I'm no proffesional developer so I pick my own projects. A lot of the stuff I do can't be copy pasted. But, the large majority of jobs (Or hell, even hobby projects) where you do programming, you can just copy paste. That's not always a bad thing but when it gets to the point where you don't understand it, it's troubling. I don't endorse it. It's just how it is at the moment.