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thinking of trying linux,
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Of course it's stable.
Just like with Windows, the more advanced stuff you do, the more advanced problems you'll have.
If you just wanna set and forget, avoid arch based and you're golden.
Well unless it's just editing the text file. God forbid you unknowingly enter vim and don't know how to get out without rebooting.
There was a time when I had to do that. I was a teenager. I had no idea what I was doing. And it was many many years later that I finally learned how to quit it. That pain keeps me away to this day.
Long live nano, the warm and cuddly text editor.
I'm imagining that same instance still stuck open for years until you found out.
To quit vim is simple!
Just get a second computer, network with the first one, SSH into the first one, find the process ID of vim, and pkill! Easy as pie!
Screw nano and ed, use mirco.
... It didn't occur to you to google "how to exit vim"?
It's :q! and if you were in some special mode you can spam esc a bunch of times before.
They couldn't, didn't you read? They were stuck in vim!
I'm not sure of you are trying to be funny, but just in case you are not, if their only working environment was a terminal and they didn't know how to get out of vim, they were fucked to begin with.
I'm guessing they entered vim because they copied it from somewhere, be it another window, having vim in a terminal emulator, a mobile phone where they searched whatever, or another PC. If we are talking about a non graphical PC with just a single tty or a user without the knowledge of changing ttys or without the knowledge of searching the web from the command line, who somehow entered vim without external input, that's kinda on them, idk. There's several fuckup steps in there, all nicely stacked.
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Google didn’t exist.
That's assuming that you're able to google it. Before everyone had a phone in their pocket, and 17 computers lying around if you were stuck in command line with no GUI then you had no option.
Thing is, when people say that windows doesn't break, they mean that it doesn't break for normal users. I'd be surprised if those know what a command like editor is, to begin with.
And it totally does break, it's just that people are familiar with the ways windows breaks, and know how to work around it.
I second this advice. Arch is a rolling-release distribution, so most of its packages are updated to the latest releases as soon as they come out, regardless of whether they’re tested to be stable with other software and hardware configurations.
I have “ubuntu server” installed on an old computer I use for hosting game servers. That thing is incredibly stable and low-maintenance.
Exactly .... If all you're going to do is go online and maybe write a document once in a while ... a simple distro like Mint or PopOS will just work without issue.
This is odd phrasing. It sounds like you're saying mint and pop aren't capable of more. Same when people call them "good for newbs"n implying that more advanced users flock elsewhere.
It’s the enthusiast mindset.