Jason LefkowitzWhat being a Windows user is like in 2025
xinit ☕@jalefkowit I just assumed everyone installed Notepad++ and moved past notepad.exe.
@jalefkowit Using notepad.exe on Windows feels like those times when you go to edit something on a *nix system and you're dumped into nano instead of vi.
arclight@xinit @jalefkowit Yes, this.
@arclight This is how I end up with ":q!" in my crontab
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Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦Thank the deities for vim!
'vi' was such a bastard to learn in the 90s, that I could never be arsed to go through such pain again, so now I use gvim on my Linux machine at home, and my Windows laptop at work, and have evolved a moderately busy .vimrc config file that works for both. That, plus 14yrs of coding in Perl, mean that I am now the in-house regex guru 😂
@bytebro I have never really liked using gvim because I normally work in the terminal on remote systems (without X forwarding) and I never really liked how it looked. I try again every couple years, though. Maybe some day.
Everyone's mileage will vary of course, but it's very configurable, to be fair, and I get a perfectly usable interface (I rarely use menus and such in vim) on both platforms. And basic habits I inherited from Win, like Ctrl-C for 'cut', Ctrl-V for 'paste', etc all work as expected on both.