What?? Why do you presume the data is bootable? I’m confused, isn’t this about restoring data from some backup data? Am I missing something? Is it a sex thing? I can never tell here at Lemmy…

No it is not. Just use cheksum. Like a normal person…

I wonder what centOS would be like? Somthing out of commission, but remembered fondly even though it was anything but special or elegant. But it worked. And if not you could fix it easily. Maybe a trabant?

Why would I spend my time defending it to !believers? “Laziness is a virtue”. I could spend the time writing even more perl code and piss off everyone else working on the project. Also I don’t have a soul, that is 1.

If you want a short answers it is a text editor. If you want the long answer i might not be the best person for it but here it goes: You start using it as a text editor but it is a bottomless pit of freedom and practicality, where you put 100s of keyboard shortcuts into muscles memory, and one day you will find your self replacing your terminal with emacs. Then you forgot that GUIs exist all together. You will feel an urge to make fun of vim users. Somewhere along the way you’ll start waching videos of Stallman, and form a desire to overthrow the proprietary overlords. Turn back now! ;)