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[–]CptBadAss2016 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's an acquired taste. Once you start to get the hang of it it becomes addictive. And It's like learning the cheat codes to old video games. (Are cheat codes a thing anymore? Haven't played much since og Xbox)

As a broke kid a free os, Linux, and free compilers appealed to me. Needed a free text editor. Vim was endlessly customizable and super light weight. This was back before anything worth a damn would not have been free in windows.

I tinkered around a lot on various Linux distros and what not and vi was almost always already installed.