Same. When people complain about a terminal being slow I have to wonder what it is they’re doing to run into the problem. Konsole works just fine for me. Perhaps my use (mostly reading mail with aerc, some Vim usage, very very light Git usage… that sort of thing) just isn’t taxing enough.

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Yeah. The “don’t leave” thing is pretty insidious. I’ve noticed a number of tech blogs will include a link to the primary source—but only grudgingly and they try to bury it as much as possible.

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I call the meandering intro “throat clearing”. It’s common because most people don’t write enough and it’s a warm-up for getting into the rest of the text; it’s their familiar territory that’s easy to write about.

A good rule of thumb is that you can usually delete the first three paragraphs of most technical blogs and then sub in a new lede that tells the reader what’s coming after the rest of the blog post has been written.

It’s better to have a link that few people click than to not have it, IMO. Of course, these days, links are tech debt - after a blog post has been up a few years, link rot sets in and half the links will be 404.

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