HP stands for heinous product.

And honestly, nano as the default makes sense, it’s lightweight and gets the job done. I still have that as my default.

Honestly, most of the defaults are good enough for me. I just run vi and it does the job well enough. If I need to configure a good dev environment, I’ll just install stuff with apt-get install and mangle stuff onto my PATH.

It works with WINE ok, but you might get better luck with someone more native.

Java is absolutely not dying… unfortunately. Billions of people depend on spaghetti code written by corporations every day. I think Java will be the next COBOL. It won’t die and it’s unfortunate.

Seconding SumatraPDF, it has steered me through storms for years.

Debian, because I can just have a computer without needing to fiddle with a million things. I work in tech and don’t want to mess with any more code or configurations if I’m on my own computer. It’s worked for me for 5 years and has worked for others for 30 years.

What’s with everyone recommending a different distro instead of trying to help the user in the thread?

Color me confused, but what’s wrong with stock Debian?

Technology was a mistake.