12-03-2022, 03:01 AM
I might add that programmers could reach a new level of disgustingness with Python. Such as the famous "archinstall" script that doesn't make Arch Linux any easier to install than it actually is. It repeatedly force-quit with "stack traceback" on my system, whether I wanted to put it into a partition of my HDD or on a pluggable disk. That script seems to expect successful installation only for someone who had enough of MacOS or Windows and cleared the entire internal HDD or SSD. Nothing green about that LOL, and Arch isn't for the "casual" and "innocent".
Sadly Python is in many other places in Linux world such as the installers called Anaconda (by the RHEL/Fedora family) and Calamares (written by KDE). Anaconda could work very slowly and it could present information in confusing fashion but it does the job. The program that installs Ubuntu is similar to Calamares or might be an earlier version. Generally my experience with Calamares was positive but it depends on the distro. EndeavourOS carries the best one, scrolls a lot of information about the installation process; switch to it LOL after enough times seeing the boring "wallpapers" of astronauts and galaxies. On another distro Calamares crashed at the very end with a "stack traceback". However it never led to something I couldn't boot into.
While I was stuck with 32-bit Ubuntu Studio I had to deal with a video-creation program called Openshot Video Editor which did almost all its functions with Python, so that it was very slow. I don't think this has really changed on 64-bit systems, and from v2 to v3 of the bloatware interpreter but I haven't been paying close attention to alternatives like KDEnlive.
Sadly Python is in many other places in Linux world such as the installers called Anaconda (by the RHEL/Fedora family) and Calamares (written by KDE). Anaconda could work very slowly and it could present information in confusing fashion but it does the job. The program that installs Ubuntu is similar to Calamares or might be an earlier version. Generally my experience with Calamares was positive but it depends on the distro. EndeavourOS carries the best one, scrolls a lot of information about the installation process; switch to it LOL after enough times seeing the boring "wallpapers" of astronauts and galaxies. On another distro Calamares crashed at the very end with a "stack traceback". However it never led to something I couldn't boot into.
While I was stuck with 32-bit Ubuntu Studio I had to deal with a video-creation program called Openshot Video Editor which did almost all its functions with Python, so that it was very slow. I don't think this has really changed on 64-bit systems, and from v2 to v3 of the bloatware interpreter but I haven't been paying close attention to alternatives like KDEnlive.