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I feel like I've been gaslit into running FOSS but every success only brings me closer to fighting god

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It really is a slippery slope. When does it end???

It ends when you open vim. There's no escape.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Having no escape is a very big problem if you want to use Vim...

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago

Real heads ctrl-[