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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:13:41 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Why do some #Linux and #Unix users get upset when their favorite CLI app/command adds a color option to its output messages? This option is usually off by default and controlled by a command-line option or an environment variable. I think colors can be useful in certain cases, such as highlighting specific values say like GATEWAY IP or error codes or messages. There's no need to be yell towards FLOSS developers who are providing and maintaining these utilities for free. I'm just saying ...

   • James Cameroun (ratel@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:20:37 JST James Cameroun

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     @nixCraft as far as styling is concerned the only thing I want from CLI apps is their --help clearly indicating the paths to conf and style files.

   • DistroWatch (distrowatch@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:32:20 JST DistroWatch

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     @nixCraft I'm one of those people who really really dislikes colour in console output. It makes everything harder to read, especially in a terminal with a dark background. Syntax highlighting is usually one of the first things I turn off in text editors too.

     I don't yell at the developers or anything (as long as there is an option to disable it), but it irks me when they enable stuff like that by default.

   • Atanas (atanase@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 22:36:38 JST Atanas

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     @nixCraft People love to be upset. That's it. Look no further.

   • TaitoJone (taitojone@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 23:05:09 JST TaitoJone

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     @nixCraft Abuse is never acceptable, but I would like to write a script without worrying whether an update makes a dancing hamster fscks the i/o of cronjob.