First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, 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. 

Assuming you like vim, yes.

% <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>

The same reason we have multiple word processors, databases, spreadsheets,
and graphics programs for Windows.

Kurt
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