• DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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    11 months ago

    Don’t mean to be overly combative here, but how does Debian preclude you from having to fiddle with things? Do you just like all the defaults then?

    I love Debian myself, and I use it for all my personal projects where something needs to run unattended because it’s rock solid, but there are still a lot of defaults that I want to change every time to make it suitable for me. Now admittedly I’m fairly opinionated about these things, but I mean, out of the box the default editor is nano (!). So as a result I created a “fiddlescript” that’s a mile long and that I run on every new installation.

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      11 months ago

      Honestly, most of the defaults are good enough for me. I just run vi and it does the job well enough. If I need to configure a good dev environment, I’ll just install stuff with apt-get install and mangle stuff onto my PATH.

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        11 months ago

        And honestly, nano as the default makes sense, it’s lightweight and gets the job done. I still have that as my default.