I agree with hhemken. Let us note that vim:"emacs-mode" and emacs:"vim-mode", altough they do exists, are jokes (big jokes by the way). But I find the idea of a vim:"windows-notepad-mode" really bad. But as a an experiment on this, or as an alternative to jedit, it may have some followers. But I hope it doesn't get taken too seriously. By the way, and to not to loose the humour here: ¡Larga vida a emacs! »

I must say, as many before me, that I enjoyed the article a lot. I also enjoyed the commentaries and the critics, especially the ones by linville79 and hhekman. It must be said, as readiness points out, that the general public likes to be pandered, and, specially in North America (geographically speaking: USA, Canada and Mexico), likes to be pandered really hard. Gnu/Linux is perfect for working. Simply stated, the stability of the system plus the very light demmand that it puts on the hardware, make it the ideal working OS. Saddly, of course, there are many areas of the uman activity that haven't realized that, and the lack of applications is because "corporea corporat sulvuntur", the big Co support each other, and you should not expect Adobe or Macromedia spending efforts on making their software avaible to us. Yes, Linux somethimes gives us more work than necessary (I have a Flash memory that doesn't want to mount), but I run simulations writen in FORTRAN, browse the internet, listen to my rather big collection of mp3 in XMMS (again, I don't need a program to organize it, I can do it myself) and watch DVD in Totem or mplayer. All of them simmultaneosly on a 32bit machine with 1GB of RAM. And here, at the UNAM, the national university of Mexico, Linux will whipe the floor with Vista, because it is more than enough to work, and even to loose the time in a confortable manner. »