Ephera

Oh, that is actually the part I do agree with. I don’t think everyone will, but I do actually think JSON is easier to read and write (correctly) than YAML. I specifically wrote that JSON cares the least about that, because it was designed to just serialize JavaScript objects into strings and back. As far as its original purpose is concerned, no one would ever need to hand-edit JSON. Which is also why it doesn’t support comments (which is still somewhat of a dealbreaker for a configuration language, although I guess for your proposed workaround, one could potentially use a JSON flavor which supports comments; potentially, you can even write your JSON in the YAML file with comments directly and then not convert it, since YAML is a superset of JSON).

As for documentation, yeah, it is possible to convert, but it makes it more annoying, particularly also if you then can’t easily re-use configs in another project. And if you’re working in a team, having to explain to all your team members, how they can convert the official documentation, is also not really acceptable…

I love this comment. JSON is by far the format that cares the least about being human-readable or -writable, but you’re seriously proposing writing it rather than YAML. And I kind of don’t even really disagree. But a big problem with that strategy is that you won’t find documentation for how to write the configuration in JSON.

What comes sort of close, is that you can define so-called “schemas”, at least for JSON, TOML, YAML and XML. Here’s what that might look like for JSON: https://json-schema.org/learn/getting-started-step-by-step

I don’t know, if you can actually generate a GUI from such a schema, though. They’re intended for validating existing data, so I don’t know, if they give you enough data to work with to actually provide a GUI. For example, you don’t really have a human-readable name in these. The fields are rather called e.g. “productName”.

Yeah, some distros have GUIs for system settings, like openSUSE and Mageia, but advanced users will often even take that as a reason to not use those distros, because they themselves don’t need that on their system. And because not many advanced users use these distros, it’s hard to recommend them for noobs, because it makes it more difficult to find help resources. Kind of a stupid situation…

I’d argue it all started, because Microsoft is Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions#Personal_computer_versions

Just had an owl hoo-hoo-ing outside. I do now imagine, that’s how it felt when I started cooking my 1 am dinner. 🙃

Yeah, I don’t think this post is addressing folks who are in a relationship. 😅

Yeah, its game mechanics are very similar to Civ5, which is still considered one of the high points in the Civ series. And it does reproduce them quite well, so I do think that can give you a good impression, if Civ is for you.

Then again, I do own Civ5, but still end up playing Unciv instead, because I’d rather have my laptop not screaming at me while it runs in the background and I do a couple turns every so often…

That’s not a typo: https://k3s.io/

It’s basically a Kubernetes cluster, which you can run locally on your PC. Really useful for playing around with Kubernetes before you move to a ‘proper’ environment.

I do like the picture, too.

Option 1: echo 1
Option 2: echo 2
Option 3: echo 3

I have a feeling how it came up with that 3… 🙃

Is there a way to filter FlatHub for open-source software? I tried it a while ago involuntarily, because it got automatically enabled in the KDE package manager UI, and then I immediately nuked it when I realized, I had accidentally installed some proprietary software off of it…