Thank you for this wonderful tip
So it's
:match Conceal /^.*$/
:set conceallevel=3
:highlight Conceal NONE
When you finish, just do
:match
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@mff @nixCraft
'vim'
without any file name is all you need to type in your Bash to see the welcome screen of vim.
Bram Molenaar who created vim on the Commodore Amiga, even tells how you can support Children in Uganda, if you bother to read the help file in its initial headers. The information was updated, for as far as I know, until his departure of life.
I'm currently on mobile otherwise I would have put up in a screenshot
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If you haven't done so yet and you are playing with Open Source Operating Systems, read this article about the BSD family
it is very enlightening, and worth every minute of reading it
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https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/03/23/osday-2025-why-choose-bsd-in-2025/
The fact that you take on the time to react is a Plus. The fact that you have taken the time to read up on the article of Stefano is another Plus.
Any reaction is a good reaction.
Contrary to certain people on certain sections of the internet, I cannot be offended by anything that I read upon in a reaction towards me on the internet.
You put an interesting Twist on it which I have looked up on also.
Technology should not move on for the fact of moving on.
Software should not be dropped just because other software has been developed and works well if the previous software is good solid and **stable**
Contrary to what you may believe, it has nothing to do with being a greybeard or not. It has more to do with the fact that you should not, as a distribution maintenance team, drop a command set, which has no negatives in comparison with the new one, especially not if the established command set does not take a significant amount of space in comparison with a new one.
The beauty of OpenSource computing is that many different points of view can concurrently exist without sending any negative energy towards each other
Just look for example at Gnome and KDE. In the beginning I could use both because both Gnome and KDE were easily modified. When Gnome went a different direction I dropped using it. However there were still many hundreds of thousands of people who liked the way Gnome went
Just as there were also many hundreds of thousands of people who loved the way that KDE kept going.
Now we are decades further and the Smart Ones under us realize that Gnome needs KDE to exist and visa versa.
That's The Beauty and The Power of Open Source.
Have a good day My Man
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When I need docs I do
`man command'
When I pressed F1 in a gui program it did the following
* Request a helper running in my DE to parse a html page
* Ask the helper to open my default html parser
* __Without asking me__ the helper opened a __massive browser__ ravaging ram just to show me what I could find with
`man command`
* I wonder why instead the Ui program did not do the following
* request a helper open a (ba)sh
* parse >man command to the helper
* have the helper display the manpage in the sh
The results would be
* Much less resources used
* No assumption on my current internet connection would be made
* That method has worked for 60 years
<IRC>
/m shakes head and looks at the massive browser showing the equivalence of a manpage
</IRC>
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https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions
Still reading the lengthy article regarding SystemD on Wikipedia this is another interesting excerpt
In April 2014, Linus Torvalds expressed reservations about the attitude of Kay Sievers, a key systemd developer, toward users and bug reports in regard to modifications to the Linux kernel submitted by Sievers. In late April 2014, a campaign to boycott systemd was launched, with a website listing various reasons against its adoption.
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I started to dislike SystemD more and more, as I saw that most distributions were putting hooks for SystemD in case a user would want to switch to it and started with one of the other options initially, on that particular installation.
With the hooks in place that process usually goes seamlessly.
In my proud opinion, if you don't want to use SystemD, nothing of it should ever be on your system
Now I can easily achieve that by just building my Linux from scratch, and I'm not talking about the Linux from scratch distribution, I'm talking about the way I did it when Linux was initially pushed into alt.binaries.Unix many decades ago.
All variants of *BSD have made sure that all the commands which could break, like the ifconfig commands suite we're simply fixed!
But this is the the dilemma that you will get, when the kernel is just built for itself and it's not a coherent part of the base Operating System.
What you get in practice is that your kernel wants to move a certain way, while the userland software wants to move in a different way
That kind of friction would kill a human corpus. On Linux systems and servers it literally breaks things in an unexpected manner, something that you cannot afford when you're running a database where you get two million calls an hour. A database that runs in high availability with just one other VM as a concurrent live backup
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I did not know that SystemD created such a fuzz & FUD in the Debian community, that people resigned their positions in the Year 2014, because it was impossible to maintain with SystemD, there there was such an amount of friction within the FOSS community that regular maintenance became impossible, heavy stress levels were triggered for these Atma's!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd?wprov=sfla1
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The most incredible mindbender is
**Running Linux in a PDF*"
Yeah somebody created a virtual machine within a portable document format file and runs a micro Linux version in it I will not talking about just the kernel!
https://youtu.be/cWnN-FA3zRM?si=2TK0MxpdouwFPzyW
#DoesItRunDoom
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Mind you that I'm not saying that new command should not be developed, on a contrary; what I am saying, is that if for whatever reason, certain things change, you need to make sure that the older commands still work properly, because they are in our muscle memory
Those of us, the greybeards, have commands in our muscle memory, remember that
And for those of you who do not know,
Most of the systems that are running the internet, are built, installed and maintained, by us, the greybeards!
They are not built the young ones, who are barely 20 years old, who do not know the difference between a compiler and a debugger!
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