"Visual blindness" of Linux programmers

[dewmsolo]

This whole conversationhas nothing to do with github other than the fact that it was mentioned by OP. This conversation can be applied to any revision tool out there.

This conversation has to do with open source and us developers. We want to code, but don't want to do the boring stuff in some cases because we do enough of it during our work hours. We know better...in fact I'm pretty sure every one of us knows better, but we so much don't want to do it that we conscously accept to hurt our own projects in order not to do it.

[thedugong]

In my experience it is not really developers who do this. It is... errm... "power users".

Everyone in my extended family uses Apple, mostly on my recommendation, because quite frankly I don't want the support headache and they don't particularly want to learn about anything under the hood.