“One of the first questions I get asked when a Windows or Mac
user discovers I’m running Linux is ‘What do you use it for?’ There
are so many answers that I’m sometimes stumped for a quick
reply.”
“Others have made a complete switch to using Linux as their
workstation platform, using native Linux Web authoring tools.
There’s a range of good tools for creating Web pages in Linux but
one thing you can bet on: the majority of authors who create Web
pages with Linux use a text editor.”
“Why a text editor? Because traditional Unix text editors are
editors on steroids. They evolved in the golden age of text
processing, before the world went nuts with bloated, incompatible
binary word-processing files. Newcomers often find Unix editors
daunting and shy away from them. That’s a mistake.”
“One of the biggest favors you can do yourself as a new Linux
user is to learn the basics of vi and Emacs. Yes, they’re kinda
weird, because you have to memorize some odd keystrokes. But, just
memorize them. It’s like learning to swim. Once you’ve done it,
water suddenly takes on intriguing new potential.”