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mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

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What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

mFat@lemdro.id to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    less, I don’t remember what distro it was, but there wasn’t less. There was more though.

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      Sometimes, more is less.

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        There’s a LESS_IS_MORE env var for less which makes it behave like more. Or something like that. Check the manpage

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        But when will “then” be “now”?

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          2 years ago

          Will the future be better tomorrow?

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          SOON

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          Tuesday.

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      deleted by creator

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        It was, but it was (and still is) a Unix tool. I believe POSIX still requires that more be provided (even if it’s just less secretly).

        The original Unix more could only go forwards. Someone wanted to make something like more that could go both forwards and backwards, so he called it less as a joke (because “less” is a “backwards more”). For the past 40 years, everyone’s realized that less is much better than the original more, so nobody uses the original any more.

        (MSDOS took the idea of “more” before “less” caught on).

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