Not our fault everyone blows past the kind offer of : vimtutor on startup! (I kid. The default editor shouldn’t require a class.)
You’re 100% correct. Nano is a perfectly reasonable default.
That said, it is 2026. It also wouldn’t kill us to default to an interactive one-time prompt that defaults to nano, but offers one or two others, and removes itself after setting the user’s choice.
Like it cannot print invisible characters.
I was looking at an option to display invisible characters in Kate like last week. So it got better, I guess.
haha!
Sometimes I feel like my side of the holy war isn’t engaging in completely good faith.
I might switch sides to emacs if my fingers were long enough to reach the key combinations.
Maybe I’ll go try it, anyway!
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What was the command to exit vi, again…?
But but but…vimtutor is right there on startup - so it’s an easily obtained diploma…
I’ll see myself out.
kate is fantastic, all around.
Ctrl+Alt+V makes the key bindings tolerable. (Vi mode)
Yes. Lack of :r! is what keeps me from using most editors that aren’t vim.
There’s so many things I don’t remember well enough to type accurately from memory, but I know the command to fetch quickly.
This sounds a lot like gripes that older generations have always had about younger generations.
But this younger generation is the youngest one yet!
Oh, yeah. None of my usual techniques would help get newer KDE on stable.
I guess there’s a chance it’s in back-ports, or will get there soon.
I can’t comment on Debian Testing.
I just run stable and pull cutting edge stuff from back-ports or flathub.
For some fancy stuff there’s usually a .deb file to download from the official site.
If I’m really desperate, there’s always piping a curl command to sudo, if I really really trust the provider.
I felt that too!
I was a bit nervous, but mostly relieved not to worry that every boot into Windows could cost me my whole setup.
Now I’m going through a trying-not-to-preach phase. I just want my friends to feel as free of Microsoft’s bullshit as I do.
Yes. It’s pretty funny reading someone so confident in all the extra security they’re getting from Windows messing with their boot sequence, earlier in this thread.
Corporate OS is going to corporate. End users and private files are rarely winners when corporate needs to corporate hard.
I’ve had the same dual boot configuration since around 2018 and this never happens to me, yet I keep reading that it happens to others. I really wonder what I did differently.
We have very long memories.
In my defense, an OS that I paid for breaking my boot settings was such a virus thing to do, it was really memorable.
Fixed it by blowing away the Windows partition.
That’s how my dual booting experiment ended, as well.
Yes, the office web apps all work fine inside of Firefox on Linux.
I’ve daily droven Linux for ~3 years and learned a lot
I don’t have any thoughts on certs that haven’t already been shared, but some thoughts for any interviews you may land:
So be humble, but not too humble. Haha.
We’re a neat bubble here, but running Linux as a daily driver is still pretty rare, and puts you way ahead of the pack of other candidates, at least for entry/early Linux systems jobs.
Edit: And if you find an organization that uses AI spicy autocomplete to do entry level Linux admin work, run far away. There’s not enough money in the world to make it worth working with people that stupid (who choose to use hallucination for problems that demand reliability, haha).
Thank you for your wisdom, Comrade Shark Fucker.
Nice! Thanks for sharing this analysis.
I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth…
Interesting. I would have guessed that Mint gave ChromeOS a run for it’s money, by now.
Sacrilege!