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A friend of mine believes similar except it's that everything in Linux doesn't actually work and you have to fix it constantly. It's rather frustrating to deal with.
doesn’t help when you have “Arch BTW” types that like the mystique that myth gives them
I spent the better part of my day debugging an ~~python library~~ no ~~IDE issue~~ no flathub issue causing certain shell commands to not run in the IDE's integrated terminal and confusing the living heck out of me. And I use Arch BTW so don't you go around spreading linux misinformation
TBH i used to alt-tab away from what ever non-work-related thing i was doing, to a terminal emulator when ever my boss walked in.
It was usually showing my latest package upgrade.