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  • The fun thing about having a built-in package manager provided by the OS is that the line gets blurry there. Is it the application developer’s responsibility to make sure they have a package for each distribution? Is it the OS’s responsibility to make sure they have a working package for each application a user may want? If there is a third party package maintainer, should the OS include that in an official repo if they don’t control it? Lines of responsibility for any given scenario are not clear, and there are a lot of different possible scenarios.

    Because in the end, the end user doesn’t know who is actually responsible, and they shouldn’t have to know. Unlike the download-and-run-installer of Windows, the only user-facing interface IS the OS’s package manager, and it is their responsibility to make sure it works. That is why major distributions spend a ton of time testing and repackaging software in their official repos.


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    23 days ago

    I think that’s the point of the rant. The setup process is out of reach for non-technical people. Bazzite doesn’t fix that problem of the packages don’t include the needed functionality. That the problem can be corrected isn’t the point; the correction process is still a technical hurdle that non-technical people shouldn’t have to overcome.










  • I would argue that people didn’t know what it meant, or were in a position where they could not refuse the loan.

    Kids grow up being taught that they had to have a college education to have a good job, and that a good job is necessary to have a good life. Parents and counselors reinforce this, so they have no reasonable means believe otherwise.

    Employers DO require college education more and more. Not all, true, but the competition for those jobs is higher, so expect lower pay and greater difficulties in getting hired. Often that pay is not even enough to make rent. For the rest, the number of people who have a degree is in increasing, so the competition for those jobs is increasing as well, with the same decrease in pay.

    So out of the gate, children are put in a situation where, from everything they can see and are told, they need a degree. But most can’t afford one. Therefore, they are placed in a position where they must take a loan with no guarantee that the degree will get them a job that pays well enough for them to pay back loan.

    So it’s a bit more than “you took a loan, you pay for it.” It better described as “you were cooreced into taking this loan on false pretences presented to you by all of society.” Society should take responsibility for that.



  • While I agree in theory, I’m not really sure there’s much that can be done in practice. The genie is out of the bottle here: jobs want the paper, so people get the paper, leading to jobs expecting people to have the paper. An employer is unlikely to deliberately “lower their standards” (in their view) if the pool of potential employees with a degree is large enough for their needs already. Since you can’t legislate that employers are not allowed to require a degree, and you can’t expect people to not get a degree and sacrifice their own potential future to break that cycle, we’re kind of at an impasse.

    That’s why the only way forward that anyone’s figured out so far is government funded higher education.

    Edit:typos