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This is true of virtually anybody else who has insisted on getting a mac or linux PC, or using Vim over EMacs or vice versa, etc.
by jollyllama 4y ago
This is true of virtually anybody else who has insisted on getting a mac or linux PC, or using Vim over EMacs or vice versa, etc.
- berkes 4y agoAre you saying that any factual reason is invalid and that the only reason one ever chooses Mac, Linux, Vim, Emacs is on purely non-factual, percieved ideas?
- jollyllama 4y agoNo, just that in my experience, someone who insists on one software over another when asked to use one that is functional, it's usually over some kind of preference bordering on the strength of religious sentiment.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoThere's an ethos to not using proprietary software whereas Vim vs EMacs is more a right vs wrong issue.
- tracker1 4y agotwo wrongs don't make a nano.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoHERETIC!
- jrm4 4y agoCorrect. Now, a good question is -- should this NOT be considered something like "religious?" I see no good reason not to -- regardless of what one things of "religion" in general.
- mejutoco 4y agoI asked in the past for something other than windows, because windows required jumping through hoops to do my job.