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Imagine being this guy above me and thinking that the percent of people that would switch out from their default shipped DE terminal emulator is anything but a minority 🤪
I mean, you work with what's there. But the world works (not runs, that's the shell) on them.
Nah, the world uses what's there. It's a small subset that even works on them directly. See also: xkcd meme about infra being supported by one guy in some random state.