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posted by martyb on Saturday April 18 2015, @11:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the smartphones-do-not-mean-smart-users dept.

Emacs vs. vi; PC vs. Mac; Windows vs. Linux; Sony vs. Nintendo. Holy wars of technological preference have been nothing new since the adolescence of computing technology, and are often the subject of many a debate here.

However, a recent argument between two roommates about the superiority of Apple vs. Android technologies has taken a bloody turn worthy of a bromance movie sequence:

As they tussled in a parking lot, the men allegedly struck and jabbed each other with broken beer bottles. Mendez and Ecevo suffered minor wounds during the fight and were transported to a local hospital for treatment of cuts and bruises.

Which raises the question - How close have you all come to violence during a technological argument?

Coverage also at Gizmodo and BGR.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:56AM

    by Marand (1081) on Sunday April 19 2015, @04:56AM (#172724) Journal

    It is a full-function desktop designed for text-only terminals. In this, it excels.

    So is screen. And, unlike emacs, screen at least lets you use a decent text editor :)

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Thexalon on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:34PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday April 19 2015, @12:34PM (#172809)

    And, unlike emacs, screen at least lets you use a decent text editor :)

    Oh yes you can: Run meta-x term, and when it asks you what term to run just type "vim".

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
  • (Score: 1) by srobert on Monday April 20 2015, @01:43AM

    by srobert (4803) on Monday April 20 2015, @01:43AM (#172991)

    But tmux is superior to screen. If anyone says otherwise... stabbity, stab, stab, stab.

    • (Score: 2) by Marand on Monday April 20 2015, @02:44AM

      by Marand (1081) on Monday April 20 2015, @02:44AM (#173000) Journal

      Joking aside, what makes tmux nice to use? I tried it a long time ago when someone said it was nice, but it kept crashing for me (I forget why) so I never got to evaluate it properly and went back to screen.

      For a slightly different use case, I actually like dvtm [brain-dump.org] quite a bit, though if you want to detach it like screen or tmux can, you have to use something like dtach [sourceforge.net] to run it. It acts like a dynamic tiling WM, which makes it really convenient if you're mostly interested in the window splitting aspects.