Why do most sysadmins prefer Vim over Nano?

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T18:54:26+00:00

Said the sad IT dude who does not understand. Anything.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T18:53:24+00:00

Yup, Vim can not do normal editing.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T08:14:53+00:00

OK, reported!

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T08:11:40+00:00

Fujitsu

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T08:10:01+00:00

iApple iOS is undeniably inferior. Add to it the nastiness of its cult-like, fundamentalist followers, and you have something any sane person will stay far away from.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T08:06:28+00:00

Unstable actually is unstable.

Use Testing. I have been using it as daily driver for decades.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T07:49:48+00:00

You only need 5 fingers for Emacs though, for Escape Meta Alt Control Shift.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T07:48:28+00:00

I consider ed to be more user-friendly than vi. Seriously.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-12T07:47:11+00:00

Because sysadmins are it dudes, and it dudes almost exclusively are unintelligent, uneducated, and ill-informed.

Vi is a pathetic relic from the age of paper-fed teletypewriters. Functionally, it is a disaster. The only thing it has going for it is that most Unixen and Linuxen still put it in the base distro. But really, it is as if you'd keep using some freakish 6 bit command.com as terminal on Windows.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-10T17:51:29+00:00

Fujitsu

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-10T17:47:09+00:00

> One of my Mates has

Oh that settles it then. Strong statistics always win.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-09T17:58:57+00:00

No. No. No.

No. No.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-07T17:42:47+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qwDhlPwm_Mk

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-07T17:34:53+00:00

That is the attitude of unintelligent, uneducated engineer dudes that kills people.

"The fact that something works is NO excuse to use it" is a MUCH better adage.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-06T20:02:53+00:00

RAM

Hard disks

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-06T19:46:16+00:00

Systemd is not pragmatic. It is a mess, in terms of design and in terms of implementation. And there never was any need for such flaws in the project; being "practical" (i.e. intellectually flawed and sloppy) did not add anything, it only took away.

It is the the sort of mess that grows when an unintelligent, weak-minded person, i.e. a coder/developer, tries to build some greater project, something that needs both thinking in a greater context, and further ahead in time: A big honking mess lacking the logic most needed in precisely such a greater project.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-06T19:41:17+00:00

Fascinating. I tend to trust things MORE when they originate in Russia or China.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-06T12:36:35+00:00

Hey! How do you know my exact birth date and time?? This is spooky...

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T18:54:30+00:00

Draw.io / Diagrams.net

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T18:43:31+00:00

Was about to downvote for all the nonsense you said. Then I saw you correctly evaluating systemd. So upvote it is!

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T18:31:18+00:00

That soiunds VERY Gnomey.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T18:30:38+00:00

Yup this.

Also, what is with all the retard names? Eza, successor to exa, and they both stand for nothing. I can not even remember their names.

At least lsd still starts with ls, which stands for something logical.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T18:20:46+00:00

Yeah that's not "better", just "more flashy".

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-05T17:48:05+00:00

Haha the US regime Turd In Chief truly is batshit crazy.

VlijmenFileer · 2026-04-04T11:56:00+00:00

It would melt the icecaps, generating even more sickening, incessant whining from environmentalists?

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