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Nano (or pico). I had to use vi one time 😭
Which distro doesn't ship nano? I've only ever seen this in embedded or docker contexts.
Condolences for your vile experiences, though.
I think Debian doesn't cause I used it in some containers
The Debian LXC containers ship without nano, the normal (net/dvd/cd) install have nano.
Debian does ship nano not vim.
Yeah I find that nano is on basically everything but alpine or other minimalist distros for containers. As long as I have access to it on the host I'm doing okay.
I think it was OpenWRT
🤕 <-- he was forced to use vi
How did you get out of it?
By becoming a CTO and having an early retirement. Or not at all.
I remember using nano in college when I was a baby dev. I would write everything locally then paste into nano. I don't remember if the professor gave us an FTP link or if I was just trying around but I pasted the server address into the file explorer (I think nautilus, I don't remember) and it managed to connect. It made it all so easy.
Good times, writing assembly in nano lmao!