The Most Important Question in Linux: Extensibility

We learn what it means to be EXTENSIBLE! A plain text file is much more powerful than any other kind of file: it works with any program and can do whatever you want it to.

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[rae]

i used groff to write my chemistry report, starting was a pain but got used to it really quick.

[miladini]

I would say the most important advantage of text-based docs is version control. For example, in git, we can see the diff between the commits with text-based docs, while non-text docs convert into binary files -"blobs".

[Monobrow]

"easierly" - Luke Smith, 2020

[axelforsman]

You should really create some sort of 'recording mode' that starts terminal emulator windows with a larger font size by default.

[cyberdram]

When I started using linux a few years ago I followed all of luke's explanations and this is what allowed me to learn a lot about linux and what it was good or not to do .
If luke says to do something do it without asking questions.

[luigitech]

I use vscode to make markdown to ebook, pdf, .. the best of both words

[rimson_ways]

>greps into wc -l instead of just doing grep -c
Absolute brainlet

[iVixxxxx]

piping grep into wc -l!! such a newbish thing to do when you can just use the -c flag 3:39

[megabates]

"haha with no period, that's a classic" and this is the cherry on a cake!

[GCFTuto]

Since I start to use vim as my main code editor, I feel most less tired than before, when I used vscode. I can replace things easier and use regex to use an oldest code to made something else without spending hour's of work... Before jump in this world I thought just like this guy "why use terminal and text based programs?! The GUI already exists and make people's world easier!"

My English is bad I think. Sorry. Anyway thanks for introducing me to Linux/vim world! You made my jr developer journey most batter than before. Just 6 months since I start to use Linux and these tools and I already fear when some relatives Call me to fix/configure your majority GUI system based (windows), even install programs is just far way better in linux. Now I m blading me to not use Linux when I was 15 years old and starting learning code...

[LazerMage]

Extensibility is essentially a/the "Hacker" mindset; {Making something do something it wasn't originally meant to do, and in many ways that other might not think of.} Tuning it to YOUR wants and needs. I've "hacked" my i3config and i3status to the point someone familiar with the files might not know what they were upon 1st glance! Hehe....

This is MY definition anyway. Cheers! 🍻 🥂
Edit: spelling

[mgetommy]

Easierly 8:55 . Reassuring that a linguist makes these slip-ups too. Maybe not though, maybe a multilingual person is more likely cause there's more words floating around in brain.

[Sir.Rollback]

>describing extensibility to beginners and not gate keeping with jargon

cringe

[abirganguly]

Ms office and libreoffice actually saves documents in xml format compressed in a zip file, you can literally extract a .docx/.odt file, edit those XMLs...

[sheikhshakilakhtar]

As a Bengali, I am curious to know what work you did on my mother tongue. Also, why are you using lf and not ranger? What advantages does it have over ranger?

[smartvivekpal]

YouTube just decided to show me ads in Bengali

[coppereva]

I agree that ending sentences in lol is a total zoomer thing. haha

[zyansheep]

8:59 easierly should totally be a word

[linuxinside]

Hy luke, can you make video on your artix runit ? How you create services for runit ?

[theyakariyaka]

cli tools are more inclusive than gui because you can run in a cronjob : sed -i 's/master/primary/g' -R /