Comment Another missing option (Score 2, Interesting) 604
* An effective method for thinning the workforce.
* An effective method for thinning the workforce.
Wrote a screensaver for xlockmore, which was then picked up and continues to this day in XScreensaver. Main reason for trying linux (was 1994ish) was to learn programming. Took me almost 2 years to port my screensaver from Applesoft BASIC to C after reading all the X windows programming books I could find and learning C.
You can have a decent text editor in emacs. Just use vi mode. 8)
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943