New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I see what you mean, but it's useful to me as an alternative to vim. I use Emacs, as well; but for quick config edits, I often fallback on Jove. Familiar bindings, and no mucking about with Vim, which I find less friendly to the Dvorak keyboard layout, which I use.
Happily, I've managed to avoid issues of any sort for the past several years. Game controllers, graphic cards, Wacom tablets, printers, Atheros wi fi cards, and most any peripheral I've needed have either shipped with Linux drivers or there have been drivers readily available.
The pain happens when a friend or a colleague buys something on a whim and then can't get it to work, and so they ask me to help. Hours have been lost to the random impulse purchase of a silly gadget that probably won't even get used for more than four hours.