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Notepad Meets the Terminal Editor Gym

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A two-panel cartoon shows a small smiling character playing chess against a tiny opponent, with the text "Microsoft Notepad allowing you to change font." In the lower panel, a huge muscular figure with an old CRT monitor for a head crushes or overwhelms the smaller character, with the text "Any GNU/Linux default terminal editor with full customisation and autocomplete." The meme contrasts Notepad's minimal editing features with the power-user culture around Unix/Linux terminal editors, where configuration files, keybindings, plugins, and completion systems can turn a text editor into a personalized development environment. The exaggerated muscle-body visual frames basic GUI convenience as trivial next to terminal-editor customization depth.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Notepad changed the font; Vim changed the user's personality and shipped autocomplete through a dotfile.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Notepad changed the font; Vim changed the user's personality and shipped autocomplete through a dotfile.

  2. Deleted Account 5y

    Of course... Nano?

  3. @LionElJonson 5y

    omae wa mou shindeiru

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