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• The reasons us elders use VI is because on a new installation, it was the only thing available until:

  1. You are lucky enough to find a compiled version of PINE/PICO, or

  2. You have the compiler installed, and can get the source code and build it yourself.

  For some reason, some elitists decided that if you don’t know that, then you are a failure. But honestly, when modern distros started coming out with WYSIWYG-type editors, it was a relief, even though I reverted to VI/VIM because of muscle-memory, I do not push it on new users. It’s the same argument people make for driving manual vs automatic, sure it’s useful, but when was the last time you even saw a manual car? (At least in North America).

  You want to live dangerously, go ahead and put NetBSD with just the basics and leave the rest of us who want to do something useful alone.

  on intimidating in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026

• history | grep <something I vaguely remember >

  !<number of that command>

  You can do reverse search but I’m too lazy to remember the sequence right now

  on In a universe of enshitification, Linux is one of the few things that consistently gets better. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026