# Confession

My adventure down the rabbit hole was short lived.

Using a secondary device so that I could access a web browser that
would work on modern websites became a significant annoyance, as did
rc shell's handling of quoting and non-completion of program names.

I also hate the terminal windows and often find my cursor some place
other than where I want it, yes I learned about ctrl-b? to get me
to that point and a host of other incantations. But collectively
it was all just too much when I had a system which was complete and
tolerable to hand.

So I'm back on OpenBSD, using rc wrapped in readline as my shell,
except when I find it too annoying. I also finding myself using vim
again rather than vis. I am writing this using vis but I find vim's
spell checking integration nicer than piping the document through
spell which just presents me with a list of misspelled words that
I have to hunt down and modify.

I'm sure I could quite easily script something to highlight the
offending words. Maybe I should do that and would feel a little
happier.

riow's key bindings probably made the experience last longer than
it would have otherwise. I find the constant use of the mouse tedious
and unnecessary.

I also dislike the inconsistency between acme and rio, acme has its
own way of doing things which in some cases is quite at odds with
rio. In the end I preferred to use sam rather than acme as an editor
partly due to this.

So there we have it, my confession and my reasons.


## Summary

It's a real pity as the underlying principles of the operating
system are sound and it does fix and simplify a number of UNIX short
falls. But like many things that are sound in principle, in use
they can have problems. None of them individually unsurmountable,
but there are just too many annoyances for me.