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I found out how to close vim but I could never quit

I forced myself to learn vi around 1995 by making it the default editor in pine. Since I was using pine for email and newgroups it was sink or swim. The first couple of days were rough …

It doesn’t feel like it was made with the idea of being anything more than a clean product that gets the job done

I mean, “clean product that gets the job done” is fine with me. Let people theme/customize and it’s win-win IMO.

how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks?

I’ve had it fail (ie, stay on and deplete the battery) often enough over the years that I just suspend/hibernate manually before closure.

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

apt just quietly “keeps back” the package. It doesn’t fail, it doesn’t break the system, and it doesn’t trigger a rollback. It just waits for me to notice. Since I wasn’t looking at the list of upgradable packages

Depends on what quietly means. To me it means “with no indication”. Any written warning is quiet, I guess, if one is not reading it.

I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

I normally run debian but I ran LMDE for a couple years and thought it was nice.

The sexual usage is from gay bdsm subculture in the 70s that the large majority of ppl who are aware of it are only aware because of Pulp Fiction.

I had heard gimp/gimpy used to mean “limping or is otherwise gait-impaired” often enough that I assumed the Pulp Fiction character was called the Gimp because of his posture and gait. I was completely unaware of any scene/subculture meaning until reading threads like these.

Full disclosure about my own experience: I am a disabled person who has no strong emotional reaction to the term. I do limp, some days worse than others.

If the name were the problem then why doesn’t someone fork the project and change only the name? <- actual question, not trying to be a smartass

In either case they are starting from ~zero name recognition.