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> There are now new Linux users starting every day, and asking them to learn that less is better than more is not funny. When do you even need to tell them thi
by Twirrim 10y ago
> There are now new Linux users starting every day, and asking them to learn that less is better than more is not funny.
When do you even need to tell them this? Does it fundamentally change how they use the tool somehow? No, they'll see that you pipe stuff through less and that's it. Heck, I've been using Linux for 15+ years, and about 10 of those full time. The first I ever heard that "less is more" was probably ~3 years ago. It just doesn't matter.
What you're complaining about is esoteria (that is still littered all over the Windows ecosystem, e.g. the fingerprints of 8.3 file names still persist, long after it ceased to be a thing)
- sjellis 10y agoThe Linux command-line experience is mostly composed of esoterica, and less vs. more is actually one of the least bad of a thousand paper cuts. I just couldn't resist taking a dig at the pun. One thing that this thread has really brought into focus for me is that we treat the *NIX shells differently, because we are used to them, but IMO we ought to hold the shell to the same standards that we'd apply to any programming environment. If a new programming language with a REPL shipped today that was the quality of the shell experience that we've currently got, we'd think that it was ridiculous.