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icebraining on Nov 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joey Hess' minimal approach

I find Linux to be extremely consistent; almost all programs I use read data from stdin, process it according to some arguments and output the result to stdout ;)

hollerith on Nov 1, 2012 [–]

In all seriousness, the non-GUI parts of Linux are more consistent than the GUI parts IMHO.

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