error installing magit?

[Liam Proven]

On 08/04/2025 01:47, Owen Thomas wrote:

>  However, I'm always interested in hearing from others their
> take on the VCS they use and what they think about it.
I don't write code, so I don't use version control at all.

Back when I did, the version numbers embedded in filenames in DEC VMS 
was all I needed.

I spent some 5 years as a technical writer in the Linux/FOSS enterprise 
market and the companies I worked for used the "docs as code" approach.

https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/

So, I had to use Git. I hated it. I am minimally competent but I loathe 
the tool.

This does not mean I have another I prefer. I don't.

I think there is an important argument to be made for tools of an 
appropriate level of complexity for their users. Unfortunately there is 
a very prevalent attitude in the Unix world and community of "use the 
most powerful available tool" and it's associated with a sort of nerd 
machismo. I think that's a negative thing and a harmful trope.

So, I don't recommend, for example, Vim or Emacs. Not because they are 
not poweful or capable enough: they are. But they have terrible UIs from 
the 1970s before standardisation such as IBM CUA in the late 1980s.

So I recommend Tilde, which is much less powerful, but much easier to 
use for people used to GUIs.

If I knew of a nice simple alternative for Git, I'd recommend it, but I 
don't, so all I can do is point out that there is a hole here.


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