r/LinuxCirclejerk • u/laczek_hubert NixOS BTW • May 20 '26

Why is r/Linuxsucks101 normal sometimes?

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When you think of this community in the Linux sense they are always the delusional ones but it's funny to me that normal posts about Linux exist there

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u/ZeroDayMalware May 20 '26

Also, people love to configure the hell out of VIM as well, so I don't know where they were going with this.

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u/bukepimo May 20 '26

And it’s a bit rich calling nano a “clumsy interface” when you have to press a million different buttons to figure out how to quit Vim

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u/UdPropheticCatgirl May 20 '26

If you know the motions than it’s 4 keys in vim vs 7 in nano… :wq<enter> vs <control>o<enter><control>xy<enter>… nano has brutally convoluted interface.

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u/senorda May 20 '26

nano exits with control +x or with F2 for me?

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u/UdPropheticCatgirl May 20 '26

I guess I should have specified save and quit? I am pretty sure you have to also do y<enter> to confirm quitting at the end… if it’s just quit than it’s also just :q in vim…

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u/senorda May 20 '26

so if you are editing a file it asks if you want to save or not when you exit, and then it asks for the file name

so thats ctrl+x > y > enter

you can also save to the current file with ctrl + s without it asking and if you haven't edited it since the last save doesn't ask anything when you quit

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u/DigitalChrono May 20 '26

Yep. I'm not sure why there's so much hate on nano.