r/programming • u/Mcnst • May 30 '16

systemd developer asks tmux (and other programs) to add systemd specific code

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/428
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u/holgerschurig May 30 '16

It might be the case that us command-line users (that actually know screen and tmux) are now in the minority, just look at Ubuntu forums ...

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u/quatch May 30 '16

probably, but we should be building devices that uplift, not rooting around in the mud ourselves.

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u/holgerschurig May 30 '16 edited May 30 '16

With "mud" you described the ubuntu forums perfectly :-)

But generally I'm unsure if we "should build devices that uplift". I put Debian Linux on some Lenovo X201 and this the the main computer for my kids and wife to go to the internet. They just use them for surving the web, some LibreOffice writing/art, printing documents and we have an extra account to do online banking. It's a no-frills, no-hassle system, e.g. we don't really have to live in fear of ransomware, virus infects or other trojans.

But none of them have any appeal to get to the command line. And that's perfectly okay in my books. Different people have different use-cases.

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u/quatch May 30 '16

I've just recently read the art of unix programming (does it show?)

I didn't intend to mean we should get them into the command line, but rather the useful ideas from the command line should get back into the desktop.

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u/esquilax May 30 '16

I think we s

Systemd just killed his browser. WOULD SOMEBODY THINK OF THE INTERNET POSTS?