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Did the link get edited or something? OP takes me to https://the.exa.website/introduction https://the.exa.website/introduction, which has a nice tutorial with a
by p_j_w 5y ago
Did the link get edited or something? OP takes me to https://the.exa.website/introduction https://the.exa.website/introduction, which has a nice tutorial with all of the features and how to install.
- seanw444 5y agoSame here. I thought it was an alright little manifesto.
- pimlottc 5y agoIt's fine as a manifesto but no where does that introduction page actually say why you might want to bother switching over from ls in the first place.
- theamk 5y agoNo? That "introduction" link mentions 2 differences: "The computer is no longer the bottleneck." -> exa runs stat() calls; and "256-colour terminals are everywhere." -> exa uses color by default. But the thing is, if you install any modern system (ubuntu or fedora or pretty much anything else) and type "ls", it does those two things as well! Your default config will alias ls to enable color by default, and this ls invocation will be doing stat on every page. So anyone who knows "ls" even a bit would, on looking on that particular page, say, "Huh? That's your special feature? my ls does this already and I don't have to do anything to install it. [close window]" To reiterate, EXA does have features that "ls" does not. It just that https://the.exa.website/introduction https://the.exa.website/introduction page does not list those features at all. If you want to convince people to switch to EXA, you better point them to a different page.