• Sentinian@lemmy.one
    17·
    1 year ago

    Memes like this always make we wonder the original version of it. I am dying to know the original context of why the father doesn’t want the boyfriend to pull out

    • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
      9·
      1 year ago

      The father didn’t believe the boy’s claim and dared him to demonstrate exiting Vim without pulling out the power cable that night.

  • veng@lemmy.world
    192·
    1 year ago

    I’ve used vim for so many years now that it blows my mind when people act like it’s difficult to use.

    The same thing with installing Arch and even Gentoo … if you’ve got good experience with something like redhat/centos and can read documentation it’s a breeze.

    • ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Installing Arch really is not what it’s made out to be anymore. Bootstrapping a system manually is like a half hour affair for me (maybe). It’s just fixing systemd-boot because inevitably I misconfigured it. And for people who don’t even wanna do that, archinstall.

    • nautilus@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      casual nano fan here. can’t stand vim, if my text editor has its own command line then there’s a problem lol

      at least we can all come together and say that emacs is the worst

      • lemminur@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Say what? The command is :q! or use ZQ. I don’t even use vim extensively, but comes in handy.

        • wols@lemm.ee
          9·
          1 year ago

          Oh neat, a real whoosh in the wild, on Lemmy!

          On a more serious note, vim is one of the most initially unintuitive commonly used pieces of software I’ve encountered.

          Sure, if you put in a little time and learn it, it’s not rocket science. But that seems like a weird standard for an essential tool used for one of the most common computing tasks of today.

          In response to your initial question, obviously it’s a meme. But like most good memes, it’s born out of a common* human experience. What do you think is the most common reaction when someone is thrown into vim for the first time? My guess is “what’s this?” or something similar, followed very soon by “how do I exit this?”. And the answer is, by modern computer users’ standards, quite arcane.

          IF you are somewhat familiar with the Linux terminal, you’ll try CTRL+C and IF you’re paying close attention you will notice that vim is giving you a hint. But if it’s your first time interacting with vim, chances are at least one of those conditions is not met. So now you’re stuck. And after an optional small moment of panic/disorientation, you google “how to exit vim” (provided you were at least lucky enough to notice/remember what program you’re in) => a meme is born.

          Exiting vim is almost like a right of passage for fresh Linux enjoyers. It’s not a hard task but it can seem daunting at first encounter, which is humorous given that quitting a program is normally such an easy thing to do.

          One more note, there is a group of people who will encounter vim quite unexpectedly and unintentionally: Windows users performing their first commit using git bash. They won’t even know they’re in vim, they’re dropped directly into edit mode and there’s no instructions for confirming the commit message, much less how to exit/cancel the operation.

            • MrPear@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              Have you ever tried out Micro? I use Neovim myself, but I’ve played around with Micro. It basiclly takes some good things from Nano, vim and keybindings from modern GUI texteditors, and mixes those together. It’s very good for an easy-to-use text editor

          • lemminer@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well I have never been in a position where I couldn’t find a way around a problem. In case of vim (or any other software) I studied it while using it. I’m new to the memes of Linux.

  • Synapse@lemmy.world
    101·
    1 year ago

    The dad is no longer thinking about his daughter by the time he answers that guy.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
        7·
        1 year ago

        That’s basically the equivalent of pulling the plug. Works, but it’s not as gentle.

        R-E-I-S-U-B will:

        Ask programs to prepare for shutdown gracefully.

        Then, force programs to shutdown.

        Then, sync all changes to the disk gracefully.

        Then, unmount the file system.

        And finally reboot.

        Also you can replace “b” with “o” to shutdown.

    • skrttskrtt911@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been trying to get good at vim recently and the more I learn how to do, the more I love it. I already hit the inflection point of being better with vim then regular text editors, but I can tell I’m nowhere near as fast as I can be

      • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        1 year ago

        Keep at it, it’s a learning curve but when you get over it you’re not gonna wanna program without it. IdeaVim is great in Jetbrains IDEs and the vim plugin for vs code is pretty decent, if you’re more into an IDE than a terminal.