just me, I suspect the venn of #fountainpens and #linux is almost one circle, as both are things that while they are excellent for niche uses, they totally way to complex and fiddly for most users.
Fountain pens, unix (Linux, BSD, UNIX®) platforms, manual transmissions, safety and straight razors, and audio and video components are examples of tools which are chosen by and can be properly adapted to their owners' preferences.
While you are quite right that a steeper learning curve dissuades some potential users, the tyranny of the default seems to be the greatest influence, backed up by the threat of choice overload.
A new project to resume development on the formerly open-source Redis project. This project was forked from the open source Redis project right before the transition to their new source available licenses. https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey Linux Foundation is behind this project. #opensource#unix#linux
Of course, a well-crafted .vimrc is critical. How else would you maintain that aura of superiority vital for deflecting questions from less-enlightened coworkers? Everyone knows you must have a perfect Vim configuration file before writing any production code. #unix#linux#vim#neovim#opensource
Today in stupid #unix#shell games: sorting by numeric IPv4 address
Input: a file with '|' separated fields with IPv4 addresses in the third field
awk -F'|' '{print $3 "%" $0 }' | # pull the address to the front \
sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n | # numerically sort each octet in order \
sed -e 's/^.*%//' # strip the leading field again
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