> "Explain how the development of new text editors seems to be talking up a significant chunk of available volunteer manpower? Even Emacs and vim couldn't possi

> "Explain how the development of new text editors seems to be talking up a significant chunk of available volunteer manpower? Even Emacs and vim couldn't possibly take up such a large chunk of the available manpower, since they are hard to even use and let alone hack on." Kate? Kwrite? Kakoune? NeoVim? Featherpad? Gobby? Yudit? aoeui? Searching Ubuntu package descriptions for 'text editor' finds 98 of them. ( https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=bionic&searchon=all&keywords=text%20editor https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=bionic&searchon=all... ) Then consider all related things on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_word_processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code_editor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code_editor These aren't springing out of nowhere, these are all massive amounts of duplicated human effort reinventing wheels over and over. > "2) "hundreds of Linux distributions" is a myth and has been one for a very long time. The fact of the matter is that nearly every new user only needs to try three major distros" Distrowatch tracks at least 276 different distributions and those are likely only a subset of all that have ever been created and released. It's bad enough to consider the duplication of effort, even worse if you only three matter. https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity All that wheel reinvention while important things were just crying out for available effort, right? > "There's certainly no such thing happening broadly today. We want easy to use software, because that means we can get our parents and grandparents off of Windows." Even while denying it, your own example is that easy to use software is for people who can't use computers. It's not for the likes of you. It's like a construction company that thinks power tools are for grandmas and handtools are for workers, it makes no sense at all.