There’s this amazing invention; it’s called “wash your vegetables”.

Or maybe…hear me out…different people like different things. Some people don’t like GUIs and enjoy working in the command line. For some other people, it’s the opposite.

It’s just different preferences.

A couple of times I’ve had it autocorrect to complete gibberish. Go home, GBoard, you’re drunk.

Really? There aren’t updates with new features that you look forward to? Ever?

Garuda. It’s an Arch derivative that creates a snapshot of your system every time you update. That way, if the update breaks something, you can just roll your system back to the last working snapshot.

If you don’t like it, don’t use fork Ventoy.

I read a biography of Stallman several years ago. The whole free software movement was an attempt to preserve the early hacker culture where everybody freely swapped code. So, Stallman didn’t really “invent” FOSS; he just codified that early hacker ethos.

What was minix then? A non FOSS version?

It wasn’t FOSS, but then neither was Linux originally.

Fish shell does this automatically. It’s one of the reasons I love it. You can auto-complete based on your command history.

GNOME + Debian

Into the trash it goes.

It was 10 days, but, yeah, not a lot of time, especially for one guy. (That one guy was Brendan Eich, by the way.)

Doing things the hard way doesn’t make you smarter.

Yeah, same, but I always set my editor to insert spaces instead when I hit Tab, so that the spacing won’t be different in other environments.

There is absolutely nothing I do in an IDE frequently enough to memorize a bunch of arcane commands, especially in 3 days. Regex solves any mass-operations.

Yeah, don’t memorize a bunch of arcane commands. Use regex instead!

I refuse to see how vim and emacs is worth learning.

Interesting choice of words. You aren’t unable to see…you refuse to. Why would you refuse knowledge?

This happens much more often than the other one.

I always think about stuff like this whenever libertarians talk about how much more efficient corporations are than government. I’m like, “Have you ever worked for a corporation?” Organizations are just huge dumpster fires in general, because they’re all run by humans.

That should be elementary computer literacy: if you don’t know what the file does, then don’t delete it.

I knew somebody would have the relevant xkcd.

Naw, they wanted the metaphorical length. Computers are great at metaphors.