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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCode (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] MigratingtoLemmy 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed to the latter point. The only reason why I might not use vim is to copy-paste some code in and out of the file, in which case I prefer plain text editors.

With that said, I'm a purist who uses vim without any external plug-ins (other than the files I wrote myself in ftplugin). Use vim on a remote machine whilst SSHed into it from a windows machine and wanting to copy-paste stuff in and out is a major pain which is why I downloaded Vscode in the first place. This piece of cancer is not touching my linux machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

based asl for using vim without plugins. although what is difficult about copy/pasting? i think u can get vim to use the system clipboard with a command

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, however I'm using Windows as the host, whilst SSHed into my development machine.

Yes, integration with the system clipboard does make things somewhat easy. I would still use a simple GUI text editor if I was using my mouse though (like copying from a website using a mouse).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like this is backwards and netrw is The Way.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 1 points 1 year ago

I use tree on the terminal if I want a tree view. I do all of my file management directly, it just feels more intuitive. I understand the point of netrw though