First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>Oh boy. What will they do next.
>
>I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new
>lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement
>for vi.  I downloaded vim  with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully
>convenient) and now all is fine. 
>
><rant>It sure is great having all these choices in linux. Makes you
>wonder why linux hasn't taken over the desktop yet. Seriously, if a vi
>like editor is good, why really do we need several clones, which really
>do the same thing.  You would think that authors would just keep working
>to make one vi clone the standard and highly convenient to use so as
>to attract more users. In actuality, all they are doing is solving the
>same problem over and over.  </rant>

Vi clones have a long history, and I think that elvis was available long
before vim (the first time I would ever even think of using a DOS box was
about 1990 when I found elvis and perl that ran on DOS).  If there weren't
multiple choices, we would still be stuck with elvis.

I doubt that the target audience for the Wal-Mart Lindows box would know
the difference between vi, elvis, and vim.

Bill
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