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The article does say this...

  If people find vim, emacs, or whatever genuinely good and productive, I’m not going to criticize them for using it. People are most comfortable with what they know. But for the people I am discussing, that same familiarity blinds them to their tools’ flaws, and leads them to celebrate those flaws, flaunting them as games.
Sorry, I find the Linux desktop thing to be an accurate generalization. There's scarcely any usability advantage over there unless someone has specific requirements. The dominating mindset there isn't to make stuff just work, and it shows.

Vim, not so much, maybe I don't know enough who use vim besides myself.



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