Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Daily Blob" channel.

  1. 1:56 Linux systems don’t tend to need defragmenting. But then, they don’t have a “Registry”, either. The problem with Windows is that it is so complicated inside, nobody at Microsoft understands how all the parts interact any more. Why else would it need to reboot 5 times during a system install?
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  2. 7:18 Linux distros can do updates without requiring more and more resources from your computer. Why is it Windows does?
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  3. SFTP and SCP are both services that are normally available automatically as part of SSH. You can use whichever you want. Also many GUI file managers on Linux can give you remote access to filesystems on other machines via SFTP. You can then drag and drop files between machines, and this can work across a room or across the world. And it’s all done securely.
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  4. 6:48 Something to think about! (Do I agree? Well, I’m not sure I dis agree...)
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  5. OK, counterargument: imagine you’re lying on an operating table. What would you think if you looked up and saw somebody flipping through “Open Heart Surgery For Dummies”? ;)
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  6. 3:09 A large Registry on its own shouldn’t slow things down. You said it yourself, it’s supposed to be a “database”. That means it has efficient lookup mechanisms that scale well to large amounts of data. It should have indexes which give access directly to the desired records, skipping over the irrelevant stuff. Does Microsoft actually implement things that way? After a quarter century since the introduction of Windows NT, do you think it has finally figured out how to do fast database lookups? Answers on a postcard, please...
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  7. Nowadays, an important contribution to your CV can come from building up an online reputation. Maintain an account on GitHub/GitLab. Publish a few projects of your own. Contribute to a few projects of other people’s. Get your name into the Git commit history of something well-known. All this adds up.
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  8. No, I do not copy/paste code from StackOverflow. In fact, it’s quite rare that I learn anything useful there https://github.com/ldo/scan_disks/blob/master/scan_disks .
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  9. 4:03 Wrong answer. SSH already gives you secure file transfer. But will Google tell you that?
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  10. 6:03 Linux application software doesn’t, for the most part, need to install itself into the boot routine. Yet something like LibreOffice or Inkscape can still start up quickly. Even with all that boot preinitialization, Windows software still becomes slower and slower to start all the time. How come?
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  11. PHP is a recipe for mediocrity. But then again, it’s a reasonable answer to the question, since the type of people who would be good at programming wouldn’t be here asking.
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  12. 1:58 A key point with Linux is, you don’t have to decide up front everything that the server will do. You can add services on demand, or remove ones you don’t want--in short, you can try things out and change your mind. Everything is in packages, and packages can be installed and uninstalled at any time.
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  13. 4:31 Code reuse is done by including libraries into your project. If you are doing it via copy/paste, you’re doing it wrong.
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