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astrodust on April 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why OS X just doesn't cut it

I've done programming on computers that didn't even have a proper backspace key, you had to literally hit CTRL+H, written hundreds of thousands of lines on a system with no windowing system whatsoever, and this guy is complaining because you can't "full screen" or use the mouse in Terminal.app?

If you want Linux, install Linux. Not hard. No reason to write an angry post about how OS X isn't X11.

mturmon on April 18, 2011 [–]

So true. As the http://usesthis.com interviews have shown, people can be highly productive using highly divergent development setups.

Even serious coders in the neckbeard tradition, which seems to be what the OP aspires to.

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