Midnight Commander in 8.10

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:29 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/10/29 14:48 (GMT+0100) Thomas Novin composed:
> 
> > I haven't used MC since late 1990's and I can't really say I miss it! I
> > perform lots of file-managing tasks every day and I'm quite happy with
> > Nautilus.
> 
> How nice for you that you've never had broken X, and never will have, and
> never will need to help someone else with broken X.

When X breaks, use bash.  Simple enough.  I think at that point, you're
a bit more worried about fixing X than having a filebrowser that's your
idea of pretty.  Not that bash isn't a dandy file browser already, what
that "ls" command and all.  Honestly, between ls, mv, and cp, is there
really any need at all for any file browser?  I'm getting the impression
from this thread that MC is for command-line users anyway.

> Right. You'll never need it, so no one else should have it either. Ever heard
> of the tyranny of the majority?

I'm sorry, I didn't know Ubuntu was taking away your right to life by
not shipping one specific file browser that you happen to prefer.  I
also wasn't aware that use of a certain filebrowser made you a minority
usually subject to hate-crimes and thus in need of protection.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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