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  • Not to mention meds to suppress expression of autism traits and behavioral therapies like ABA that make daily existence a constant effort. But hey, they make it less awkward for allistic people to share spaces with autistic people. Or god forbid, have them accept that some folks have different ways of engaging with the world.


  • I’m a software developer with about twenty years in the field, spending my first half of that working in a Unix environment. I have tried so hard to make Linux my home desktop solution. I’ve come back to it every five years or so, hoping it’s finally figured out the UI/UX thing.

    Things I like:

    • no comercial motivation
    • intrinsically programmer-oriented
    • free with available sources, as deep as I care to dig

    Things I don’t like:

    • High barrier to entry (which distro?)
    • Poor support for newer hardware (not a fault of Linux but a reality)
    • Too much competition in very basic facilities like package managers and desktop environments
    • Well-intentioned but largely unhelpful community support due to the above points

    I’m back using Linux again (Fedora) because at the moment I’m doing a lot of embedded and SoC work, and again I love the dev experience. But so far it seems like not much has changed wrt how fiddly daily driving can be. I can’t stand W11 for a lot of reasons, but I’m constantly tempted to try my luck with WSL as a better compromise.