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  • Written in a typical rude condescending hacker speak.

    Let's call it for what it is - it's more of a frustration vent than a guide. And this approach will certainly not make these people read through.

    There are always way more polite ways to put it, like:

    "Most of the questions you face about software are replied to by unpaid volunteers taking spare time to help you - thereby, the more effort you'll put into properly filing the issue, the quicker you'll get a response. Here are main points that we may need in order to help with your problem, and a way to obtain all information required"

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  • For fixing shit, there are plumbers and electricians and carpenters. They are workers.

    Landlord earns money not from fixing, but from renting out a house first and foremost. And this is a passive income, or, to put otherwise, exploiting a resource and dragging money from something that doesn't produce anything for society.

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  • I completely agree with your arguments, but may I kindly ask you to not use such aggressive tone? This place is generally very kind, and it is saddening to see aggression coming from seemingly nowhere. The same arguments can be listed politely.

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  • The terminal commands have same idea and structure and apply to the entirety of your system. While it is still sometimes annoying to learn CLI commands of third-party apps (yes, I know of man, but it can be useless without examples at times), commands are generally the same for Linux systems and they cover everything.

    Learning vim is like learning Linux terminal again, but for just one task of word processing in one specific application. Why?

    With that being said, I'd rather solve most of my problems with GUI applications rather than go into a terminal. I can do stuff through terminal - I know basics of Linux/Unix commands - but just why? For most routine tasks, it is simply faster and easier to go with GUI, unless you are over SSH or just have a terminal-only instance, or unless you're a sysadmin that does it 20 times each day and have muscle memory running in front of thinking what you wanna do.

    I know how to update packages through terminal - the thing you demonstrate. But I can also press two buttons in app store and it will all be done for me, so why bother? (Also, you call it three steps, but it's kinda two steps on Debian or other apt-based distros followed by one step in Arch and other pacman-enabled ones? I'm confused)

    I'm certainly not gonna use terminal for word processing unless I absolutely have to. And for that, I'll pick nano.

    Linux has to get more user-friendly - and it does. Most people are not die-hard terminal fanatics and want to get their stuff done with minimal headache - and that's where it goes and should go. Being vim elitist doubles down on that terminal philosophy that is alien to an average user. And we should not discourage any type of user to try Linux for as long as they are willing to figure truly necessary stuff out.

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  • Fair enough.

    I guess someone can make use of this all, just not regular users. Besides, the controls are very legacy and it would make sense to make an updated version just to keep it more in line with tools people are used to and generally enhance user experience.

  • Any GUI-based qutebrowser alternarives?

    In my quest for the most privacy-respecting and direct control browser I ended up stumbling upon qutebrowser.

    What fascinated me is that it literally doesn't request anything you haven't asked for. No telemetry, no weird connections. It only serves you what youbask of it.

    But, and that's a big issue, qutebrowser is a proud keyboard-driven browser made for those looking to make their browsing experience more...vim.

    So the question arises: is there any browser that is so strict with unwanted connections, telemetry etc., but with a normal GUI?

    Thanks in advance for any response!

    !Qutebrowser-01-900x0-3416479484

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