What feature/utility/app are you surprised is not installed by default in Linux distributions?

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Nano (or pico). I had to use vi one time 😭

Which distro doesn't ship nano? I've only ever seen this in embedded or docker contexts.

Condolences for your vile experiences, though.

I think Debian doesn't cause I used it in some containers

The Debian LXC containers ship without nano, the normal (net/dvd/cd) install have nano.

Yeah I find that nano is on basically everything but alpine or other minimalist distros for containers. As long as I have access to it on the host I'm doing okay.

🤕 <-- he was forced to use vi

I remember using nano in college when I was a baby dev. I would write everything locally then paste into nano. I don't remember if the professor gave us an FTP link or if I was just trying around but I pasted the server address into the file explorer (I think nautilus, I don't remember) and it managed to connect. It made it all so easy.

Good times, writing assembly in nano lmao!