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  • Long time KDE user. As in “back to the 1990s” long.

    A new systemd dependency bothers me.

    Why? I run FreeBSD. We have no need for something that started as a service manager and became basically the entire Linux operating system.

    BSD is not Linux.

  • Eh. vi was the original editor. I’ve been around computers since the early 1980s, so it’s just what I’m used to.

    When vim came out in 91 that was a major upgrade, and I already had the muscle memory for vi.

    My home computer from 1983 until 1991 was a C64. But I was dialing into unix gopher servers from about 1985.

    BBSs were more fun, but gopher helped me write term papers for AP/Honors Physics II in high school…

  • One of the very first internet browsers I ever used could work over telnet/ssh. Had no graphics support of any kind.

    You dialed up the service provider, logged in, and were presented with an html menu in Lynx browser, running on a Solaris system.

    This was circa 1992.

    Lynx still kinda exists, but has mostly been replaced with Links2. And Links2 does have X11 support, but still just fine in the console. No mouse needed.