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I use plasma, BTW

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[โ€“] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It also likes to hide things behind port redirections and binary storage of things that have always been text before so you pretty much have to use their tools to even read them

[โ€“] dan@upvote.au 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I assume there's an advantage to the binary formats though. More efficient in terms of storage size? Easier to quickly search by a particular field even in huge files? Maybe something like that. (I genuinely don't know)