Not the biggest fan of assembly but I have to learn it

  • socsa@piefed.social
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    13 minutes ago

    Serious question - is “IT” another term for engineering in some places? Where I’m from IT is like sysadmin stuff and they would never learn assembly.

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      2 minutes ago

      I would wager to bet they are in an IT degree path, something with sysadmin or networking, and taking an intro to programming class, or they are a very humble CompSci major.

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      16 hours ago

      I’m not interested in having my OS as a hobby. I prefer it as a functional tool that lets me do things with minimal effort required. Not hating on arch, just not my thing

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        16 hours ago

        I wouldn’t say Arch is a “hobbyist” distro, just one that gives users a bit more control over the install. Maintenance is the same as with other distros once you have it set up imo. Not saying you should switch btw, if you like Mint keep trucking with it.

    • OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 hours ago

      Turing complete is a fun game* if you also want to learn why assembly is the way it is as you make a whole process from scratch.

      *It’s more of a nicely packaged interactice course/puzzle game

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        10 hours ago

        Kinda off topic but do you have any experience with vs codium? And more soecifically with a c++ - workflow there? Cause the microsoft-c+±package is not available there and I never figured how to set it up so debugging and everything works in the gui and not just the terminal