Windows 10: Would this be a Windows 9 Killer

I'm talking about editors like Emacs. Not word processors. Emacs wasn't so bad until I needed help. Then I got bogged in the help key bindings. Very frustrating when you go into help to find a key binding but then you can't because you didn't memorize the help key bindings. Back when I was doing it there was one plain text editor that ran on X with bindings very similar to Windows editors. I think it was written in Python. Trouble was it would blow up every so often. Emacs, X-emacs... just unnatural to me. It seemed like anything with Windows like bindings wasn't stable. Stuff like kedit and kmail would blow up frequently. Perhaps they are perfected now though. *Smile

 

Back at the turn of 2.0 kernel I would agree. Windows was double click the installer and start using. Linux was expand the package and spend 2 weeks getting it to work right. But the difference was the Linux, once configured, was solid like a rock. Windows you had to keep fixing and fixing and fixing the same programs to keep them working.

You could try a graphical point and click package manager. But I do believe if you totally shun the console in Linux you'll be running a crippled system. Especially stuff like text manipulation and stream editing.. there's stuff you can do in a couple of lines on the console you'd have to write a program to do in Windows. On many forums people want to do complex text substitutions and filtering in Windows. I point them to sed one liner pages and Windows ports of sed and nawk.

 

I don't use KDE.
I haven't had any issues with Gedit (Ubuntu 10) and Pluma (LM16+).

I use Thunderbird for email.
It seems to work like it does in Windows.
Since I find that all email programs are stupidly complicated, I hate it on both platforms. *Biggrin

I find the Man pages are too difficult to use, so I can't be bothered spending the time to work out how to use grep, find, etc..

I get my friend to write Linux scripts when I need something tricky done.
He's used Linux Distros for ~14 years, so he can write something in a few minutes (it would take me days).

xkcd: tar

 

No-one uses email any more man. Don't worry about it.

 

In a windows program that did not work how many weeks would it take to get it to run without the source code? At lease in Linux you can fix it in windows that is a big ?.