Geany feels more like Notepad++ than Kate does.

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.

Me using Windows: “Oh, yeah, everything costs money. I forgot how much I hate this. Okay, no worries, I’ll just download cracked applications.”

virus

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

Vanilla Arch?

And I like having my software up-to-date. It sucked ass when I was on Mint and one of my favorite programs had an update and I had to wait months for it to hit the repos.

That’s what snapshots are for.

Me too, but I just emulate consoles.

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

It isn’t just a copypasta. As KnowYourMeme points out, it comes from Richard Stallman. Wikipedia has a good article about it here.

The term GNU/Linux is promoted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and its founder Richard Stallman. Their reasoning is that the GNU project was the main contributor for not only many of the operating system components used in the subsequent development of modern “Linux” systems, but also the associated free software philosophy.

Certain people get angry if you do not refer to it as GNU/Linux.

I’ve never seen this happen. I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about these people, though.

It’s like veganism. I’ve never met a militant vegan, but I’ve heard tons of people complain about them.

I think it’s an effective strategy to avoid taking about real issues.

I admit I don’t know much about it, but I got the impression that it’s great when you need a very minimal Linux system, like for Docker containers.

It’s the same reason why people argue about how to pronounce GIF. People get used to doing things one way and they don’t want to change.

This is a joke. Most people are not remotely concerned about these things.

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.