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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by arp242 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:32PM (#28932704)
I would guess that he was mostly pissed that things "just changed" without being asked. While these sort of things like the up arrow seem like a no-brainer to many here, showing up for work on Monday and having everything just be different sucks. It's a bad experience, and I can't really blame him for being annoyed.

A lot of times people would be a lot more receptive if you show them "hey, you can use the up arrow like so if you want!" Then they can choose and adapt at their own pace if they want to, and they're in control of their own systems.

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Re:FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh by dekhn on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @06:13PM (#28937488)
I told him (this guy was the chair of the informatics department at a major biomedical company) that I understood if he didn't like color ls, because it could be hard to see some colors on a terminal, but that if he wanted to disable arrow key history he was just crazy. Some things are just progress.
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