Every application kind of needs two modes: a default mode where the user is railroaded into making the right decision, and an "I'm not an idiot and will actually read the documentation before/after trying to make things work" mode. If you stick the toggle for the two modes somewhere that you'd only find by reading the documentation, people will automatically categorize themselves into the mode the ought to be in.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 74 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You actually need proper documentation, though. I've had to read source code to discover or figure out how to use cli flags way too many damn times. (I'm not a real programmer, I just work on infrastructure).

[–] thoughtfuldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry to tell you this but you are a real programmer.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 22 points 1 month ago

Fuck

[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh yes you are a programmer!

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess I shouldn't have switched from CS to IT when we got to recursion (I can read it, but I can't write it to save my life)

[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Thats totally fine for someone learning. Some really good coders i know still cannot explain complicated data structs or complicated topics. Nobody can "measure" you as a "real programmer" anymore, try as they might to replace us with LLM AI. You wrote code? You've been thru it? You've learned a good amount? You're a programmer.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

android does it well, if you want "developer" mode that let's you have better control over your system you have to do some funny IT rituals you can only access by 1. knowing they exist 2. googling how to do it

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Steam OS has kind of the same philosophy too. Normal users can treat it like a switch, only ever downloading from steam, and have a perfectly intuitive experience. But power users still have the options to run other software, customize the os, and even outright replace the os.

[–] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I love my Steam deck for this reason. I started out using it to replace my switch and now I'm easing my way into learning Linux.