What do you hate about linux? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.world

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We love to praise linux constantly and tell everyone to change to it (they should) but what are your biggest annoyances ?

Mine would be, installing software (made even more complex by flatpaks being added, among the 5 other ways there already were to install software) and probably wifi power management issues.

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[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 week ago

Is this the first time you've had the pleasure of using vi/vim? 😄 visudo is a command that locks the sudo file and just opens vi or vim. It's not a text editor in and of itself.

Vim is the source of the famous "how do you quit vim", meme. (:q , btw) The interface is completely nonintuitive and has modes. In "edit mode", all the buttons do different edits to text or move the cursor. That must have been your experience: trying to type in edit mode and getting garbage. You have to enter "insert mode" to type using the I key. Commands to do things like save and quit are started by typing a colon in edit mode. You navigate in edit mode using HJKL as arrow keys.

To avoid it, set your default editor to nano instead. Nano's hotkeys are nonsensical to people coming from Windows, but at least they're displayed on the screen at all times.

$ export EDITOR=nano

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