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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by 0points on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @05:30AM (#44375280)
For a text editor, yes, absolutely.

As developers, we rotinely need to work with large data sets, may it be gigabytes of logs, csv data, sql dump or what have you.

Not being able to open and edit those files means you cant do your job.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by Geezus_42 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:32AM (#44376056)
But are you really trying to do that on a Windows Server? I feel like there are better tools for the job.
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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by delfinom on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @08:56AM (#44376777)
"Better tools for the job" isn't always "the tool currently bringing in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$". So you live with it.

Sure, maybe by switching to linux you can squeeze out an extra CPU core's worth of performance after you fire your entire staff and replace them with Linux experienced developers, and then rewrite everything to work on Linux.

Or, live with it and make money money money money.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by trelane on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:49AM (#44378655)
> make money money money money.

Subject, of course, to Microsoft allowing you to continue to use their software.

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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by _verandaguy on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @09:47AM (#44377304)
I work exclusively outside of the windows ecosystem, so my usual go to would be to pipe this through some filtering tools in the CLI long before I crack them open with an editor.
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Re:Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux Writte... by trelane on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:48AM (#44378645)
You could make an argument for emacs, but probably not using emacs as a pure text editor.
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