Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Using Software Like Vim, Emacs and Xmonad Changes You (Hopefully For The Better!)" video.

  1. I think this only addressed part of the questions. The bigger picture for young folk nowadays that didn't got some computer study at school is why would you use them in the first place ? To them, using the terminal for anything else than debugging some system problem is going back to the '80s, like he saw in the movies. I remember an article of sorts with a teacher saying that some students (who only ever used smartphones and maybe tables) didn't knew what files and folders are. You can image now the wide gap from the big full GUI based everything they ran to a terminal-only environment with ... keyboard shortcuts! Yeah, so as I was saying, why anyone would like to use something like dwm, vim or emacs should also be stated. Someone in 2023, who is not nostalgic, who is not old, who is not even a programmer, what would be the benefits. To be frank, I'd struggle to recomment vim or emacs to a non-programmer. It does feel like overkill. Unless maybe they write a lot and could use things like groff and hoff and poff and whatever those are called, where you can have detailed formatting too.
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  2.  @IvanIvanov-nn9os  Yeah, what I'm saying is that a description of why you'd want to use them is missing. Of course that it's not the fault of the kids / young people that they happen to have only used smartphones and how computers work is as alient to them as it is for those at the age of 90 who lived before the computers were mainstream. At most I'd shame them if they immediately dismiss them or simply don't want to try or learn.
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