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  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux terminal with text selectionEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Is it weird to explain the reason why something is as it is? If you were already aware of it then it shouldn’t be as baffling.

    Imagine this conversation:

    OP: Hi guys, I’m looking for yellow tomatoes, do you know where can I get them?

    You: Well, tomatoes are usually red because of [valid biological reason].

    You see how weird that is?

    There are also modern terminals and shells that do things the way you expect in a more convenient way, but maybe you also know this

    Clearly, neither me nor the OP know this. If that wasn’t the case, I would’ve provided OP with an answer to the question they posted!

    OP mentioned powershell, he just use that (pwsh) in Linux

    PowerShell still runs inside a terminal emulator (e.g. Fish), so it changes nothing in the input/output behaviour.

    personally I haven’t tried the more GUI-friendly terminals

    “GUI-friendly terminals”? What does that mean, in the context of the conversation?

    Why are you talking about GUI?

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux terminal with text selectionEnglish
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    1 day ago

    The CMD “terminal” in Windows, for instance, don’t behave anywhere close to the rest of the system with regard to cp/paste

    Do I need to record a screencap from conhost.exe for you to believe me when I say you’re wrong?

    tab completion, etc.

    Where did that come from? I never said anything about tab completion or “etc”. I was talking specifically about Ctrl/Shift combinations with arrows/backspace/home/end, and such.

    Terminals are used for more than installing packages and editing files. If I login to the old solaris boxes at work via serial console and all the key bindings are fucked, I’m not getting the job done. I and most of my contemporaries rely on the way VT 100 terminal emulators work, which is why we can’t use kitty, alacrity, etc.

    Did you even read what I wrote? I said that there should be an option to switch between “modern” and “classic” keybinds. With the default being set to “classic” everywhere, how exactly would that cause any problems for you?

    If you want that “consistency”, use one of those terminal emulators that allows these behaviours.

    Mate, are you high? That’s what the OP is asking for. Do you know any such terminal emulators? Post some names!

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Linux terminal with text selectionEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The thing is that vi and emacs have existed since long before those other new editors came around.

    What a weird thing to say… So what that they existed before? Who cares?

    Ctrl/Shift modifiers work in a very consistent way in the entirety of Windows, most of Mac, and… everywhere in Linux except the terminal.

    It boggles my mind that there isn’t a simple switch to toggle between “classic” and “modern” style for keybinds.

  • Alaknár@sopuli.xyztoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•AWS is having a bad dayEnglish
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    10 days ago

    So, you changed one cloud provider to another…

    But let me rephrase: cloud can be significantly cheaper - if you know what you’re doing and what you’re putting on the cloud.

    I’ve been to data centres that cost as much as a decade of cloud hosting the service they were supporting (and that’s without operational costs).

    Cloud is especially great for small businesses where you have two alternative options: either build your own data centre which you absolutely cannot afford (or risk making it barely operational and unreliable) or host your company at someone else’s DC - which is what cloud is, but worse (because nobody can set up so much resiliency and have so many DC techs/admins as Microsoft or Amazon).

    There absolutely are situations where self-hosting is preferable, and even cheaper, but wondering “why do we place so much reliance” on cloud service providers just shows that people have no clue what cloud actually offers.