Situation: there are 14 competing editors.

Guru Meditation red.

Alternately: yellow-and-black ASCII approximating Evangelion’s ALART.

And Linux/ARM is still liable to be a blip, once RISC-V takes off.

More generally - stop expecting every program to have an alternative. Sometimes there’s just the one thing that does what you want.

I lost functionality when I moved from Ubuntu to Windows 7 circa 2010, and I lost functionality when I moved from Windows 7 to Mint circa 2020.

Ubuntu for those used to Macintosh

Still sour about one fucking guy deciding to flip the interface to left-handed the day before a long-term feature freeze.

Just use Mint.

I’m on Mint 20 and had an unreasonable number of monitor configurations. Initially tallscreen + square, then tallscreen + square + 32-inch HDTV, then tallscreen + widescreen + TV, then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV (because I ran out of desk), then tallscreen + 42-inch HDTV + widescreen on the floor as a dedicated AGDQ window, and now I’m only using an enormous 4K TV.

I’ve had issues, but never “it can’t handle it” issues. My little RX 580 occasionally produced a black frame on one monitor or other - I assume because none of them ever had identical refresh rates. The larger issue was instantly forgetting my monitor configuration every time one of them was unplugged or lost power. As if losing the square monitor caused the rotated screen to fall over.

GNU/Nice.

Step one is back up your data.

Step one is always back up your data.

… wait, was this in Canada? I thought you guys had prices-as-marked instead of applying tax at the register.

Idiot with audience attempts burglary in foreign country. Films it.

It’s a bold move.

Doing the pointless thing is whatever.

Mocking people who point out it’s pointless is toxic, abusive, and deeply revealing. You think AI harvesters give a shit what you’ve told them not to harvest?

Not on your instance.

Eugh.

Bravo.

1990s: “Holy shit, we have to do something about population growth!”

2020s: “Holy shit, we have to do something about population shrink!”

What a dishonest reading of the chronology of this conversation.

And a hypocritical effort to make about us, instead of about the subject.

But asking it often results in neither answer.

Third time: by all means, ask the question AFTER a direct answer. A direct answer absolves any too-clever “X/Y problem” philosophizing. And obviously people would love to just not have the problems they’re trying to kludge.

But that’s not what they came here to ask for.

A conversation is not harassment. You are choosing to continue having it.

I know OP was trying to kludge some weird problem - that is why I said as much, yesterday. People don’t ask how to restart their graphics driver for fun.

They need help. “But why do you want that?” almost never helps. It is help prevention. It is where tech support threads end bitterly. Try ‘here’s the answer, please don’t,’ then doing the thing you did.

Making up a stupid analogy totally excuses the million derailed threads where someone genuinely just needs something you don’t.

Stop letting your ignorance prevent them from solving their ignorance. Answer the goddamn question, first. Feel free to snit at them - after.

Then OP will find out this isn’t something they need.

You should still answer the question, instead of questioning the question.

It is infuriating how every technical question has to be justified, as if ‘why do you want that?’ is always a relevant and wise question. Even though it’s omnipresent, effortless, and adds literally nothing by itself.

… blocks access at India’s request.

I mean possibly the other thing, too, but presumably CBC does not vouch for that at this time.