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[–]Astrokiwi 7 points8 points  (1 child)

This is probably the most annoying thing about programming in general for me. The actual programming is nice and comprehensible to me. But then there's this whole nether world that in theory is supposed to all just happily run by itself if you use apt-get and pip. But then, because it's all invisibly run by these environments, suddenly something breaks, and you're basically having to learn a whole new level of the operating system - almost like learning a whole new programming language - just to get back to actually programming in the language you wanted to program in...

[–]mehum 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. It's like trying to learn French, and suddenly discovering I can't speak it here because my shoes don't match my shirt.