• hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    But then you aren’t just using a text editor anymore. If you’re willing to use programs like zless and zgrep, then you can just as easily use journalctl. And I’ve never lost a logfile before, over many years, so not to discredit your experience but at least in my experience journald has been an upgrade

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      6 hours ago

      Why would I ever use a text editor? I think our approaches to viewing logs are fundamentally different.

      • hirihit640@sh.itjust.works
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        5 hours ago

        Well the original comment I responded to said

        It’s not the binary. It’s that the logs it writes are in binary so can’t be read without a program.

        Of course, a text editor is also a “program”, but I assumed they were saying they preferred plain text logs.

        If you aren’t agreeing with them then you need to state your position more clearly when you hop in.