It just kills me that in 2021, in a default Debian install, console colours are deliberately turned off by default and the argument made in the comment doing it amounts to “I find tinsel very distracting”.
I mildly complained about that on the fediverse before and was promptly chastised by somebody. 😆
(The irony for me is that part of the reason I like color prompts is that it helps me scan my screen and find the places where I entered commands so that I can better focus on the "output of commands". Anyway...)
I think this is one of those things where people have strong different opinions, and there isn't a right answer, just tastes, so the right thing to do is to make it easily configurable (and I believe that “uncomment this in the configuration file” counts as so, for a text terminal).
Maybe making periodic user surveys and selecting as the default the choice used by more than 50% of the users would be ideal, but I suspect that in most such cases having the maintainer's choice as the default is good enough.
I mildly disagree with that, in that default settings are quite powerful. I would wager that there is a large segment of the Linux user population that doesn’t even realize that this is a thing you can change precisely _because_ the defaults are so poor. Making the defaults _the most accessible_ they can be, then configurable after that, is the winning play.
I'm not that concerned about the default, which could have valid reasons as you state. But the reasons presented in the comment are not valid and are weirdly condescending. That was what I had mildly complained about originally. Have your mono default, but don't lecture me about how my preference for using color is bad when I go in there to change it. :)
No apologies necessary! And you're right that I should not judge the commenter(s) from that one comment. The comment could probably be improved, but that doesn't mean the intention was originally condescension.
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