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We are hiring to the Red Hat Desktop Team! Read my latest blog post about Fedora Workstation and our two new job openings! #linux #fedora #gnome
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2025-and-fedora-workstation-and-jobs-on-offer/
@Cfkschaller great!
How about dropping all and anything AI and start implementing some very basic programming practices, such as removing all constant error messages? Offering declarative configuration? Exporting configuration. Expose internals and offer a programmable, hackable UI?
@janneke The programable and hackable UI is already there, with javascript extensions you can do almost anything!
@Cfkschaller @janneke isn't that the same defence for biohacking? Like, sure, course you can. Monkeypatching isn't an api. It's a man walking around with an ATM for a head making a netflix series about better life balance.
Programmability was only third on my list (helpful errors/backtraces, declarative, shareable and version-controllable configs) and isn't an extension something for developers rather than for users?
Firefox and VS Codium have extensions (or plugins?) that you can download, how many have you written yourself? I have none. How many custom extensions have you written for GNOME? Do you have any idea (eg from a survey) how many users write their own extensions or how many were lured/empowered into (simple) programming through extensions?
Examples of user-friendly hackable programs are/were Emacs, Lilypond, Sawfish/Sawmill/StumpWM/EXWM i.e. a clean and simple (preferably Lisp-like) language.
With hackable, user-empowering programs the user has a gradual and (almost) never ending relationship where the customization and programming of their UI makes using it become ever more efficient and fun. Learning every day.
A great GUI (GNOME does pretty good here) offers discoverability at first contact. Which is kind of nice for a very short while. An experienced user should be able to move/program away from that, right? Other than pressing some pre-cooked shortcuts instead of using a menu item.
@janneke extensions.gnome.org got a bucketload of pre-made extensions, similar to what Firefox offers. So there is both a lot of pre-canned extensions and the option for people to learn some coding and make their own.
@Cfkschaller Thanks for the update! Will share the job openings.
minor thing my error correction algorithm spotted: "we know have"
@Cfkschaller
>One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora Workstation can make use of artificial intelligence
No, thank you.
@Cfkschaller my career in split into two (rough) decades: 10 years programming, 10 years in management roles. i had an eye injury in 2014 that led to the switch, but i don't get headaches from hacking anymore and i'm staring down the barrel of returning to code.
most of my experience is in higher-level dynamic languages like clojure and ruby, but getting back to programming kind of means a new bootstrapping process anyway. i'm trying to claw my way into the linux desktop, one way or another... it's been a challenge. ;)
do you think there's any merit to me applying for the two boston roles (i'm in halifax)? or are you folks drowning in resumes of highly-qualified c and rust hackers already?
@deobald We are open to everyone and your background is no negative, that said I do expect us to get quite a few very qualified applications so I can not promise it will be easy to land one of the positions
@Cfkschaller nah, that's fair... as much as i'd love to work on fedora, i'm trying to keep things realistic, too. given how many people are looking for work right now, i doubt any employers are looking to sponsor someone's hard reboot out of management. ;) but it never hurts to ask.
hope you find a couple of great folks for these roles!
@Cfkschaller is "Boston" a requirement?
@hub No, as I said in the blog post, we are open to remote (or other offices) candidates for these jobs
@Cfkschaller I guess people only reading the posting get deterred....
@Cfkschaller also the USB portal is oversold: it's missing key bits that haven't been merged yet, and it will be hard to deploy due to the lack of fallback mechanism (my proposal for that was shot down)
@Cfkschaller The blog post didn't include some of the amazing session management and global shortcut work from Matthias Clasen and Carlos Garnacho. Those two features rock!
Also, are these two positing net new position or replacing folks moving on from those roles.
It is great to see Red Hat's commitment to the Workstation line.