You might consider looking into other shells. Fish has things such as nor requiring escaping variables with spaces and defining abbreviations that can work anywhere in a command line.

It’s quite nice to browse that way actually, outside of the nostalgia effect, idk why exactly but it gives me more motivation to explore topics. Also I was thinking that perhaps not being able to open a folder in a new window might be a feature, I’m less tempted to open too many tabs at the same time.

I looked for the issue on anna’s archive, the editor in chief was Martin Zatz, born in 1944, so if it’s him yeah he couldn’t have met Marie Curie, but there is no confirmation that he was the one answering. However page 156 features two very cute raccoons, so it was worth investigating.

TLDR: couldn’t confirm, found raccoons

If you have myhostname set for hosts in /etc/nsswitch.conf it shall take care of this for you (should be the default on most systemd distros I believe? not sure)

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Mentioning since you say you don’t like ugly, I use Pano (on Gnome 49/Fedora 43) and have no issues with Kate (current version from Flathub) and it looks pretty (imo) as it does little thumbnails for everything. Although I’ve been meaning to try Copyous as it has that + at pointer paste.