> I was extremely resistant to learn new things when I thought my current way of working was perfectly fine. It’s not the OS’ job to lecture users about their

> I was extremely resistant to learn new things when I thought my current way of working was perfectly fine. It’s not the OS’ job to lecture users about their tools of choice. The Web is full of “vim is the dog’s bollocks” articles, if anyone has a modicum of interest to look at more complex tools. Now, we have to just set EDITOR in the dotfiles for each new student we get starting their MSc project. They have 6 months to do quantum chemistry stuff, not winning flame wars about whose editor is best. And they have already a lot of inane idiosyncrasies to learn in R and the usual Python libraries.