splash that appears when I open it with an empty buffer, and following its instructions.
That's the key to the problem, I have almost never open vim with an empty buffer, almost only used it to open files directly. Since there is no nice splash screen telling you how to exit when you use vi <your_file>, this meme happens.
Not sure if it is the same article but a search gave multiple hits with articles using the same picture, so I guess at least those are the same? Man is still I prison.
Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault. ( lemmy.world ) Englisch
How did you get out of Vim before you knew its hotkeys and commands? ( lemmy.world )
Is he though ( sh.itjust.works ) Englisch
I really do want to know though ( lemmy.world )
It all makes sense now ( sh.itjust.works )