It was always obvious to me that as long as I was using closed source software that any day could come when the vendor would screw me over. In fact, it could have been running it with bundles and bundles of spyware already and I had no way of knowing it. So I pledged to start using open source software only, to make sure that wouldn’t happen. First, I migrated all my desktop applications to open source alternatives. Then I finally made the switch.
Not necessarily! I always run
ln -s '/usr/bin/$EDITOR' $(which $EDITOR)
after a fresh install, so I have a valid executable on the path called$EDITOR
.Of course, then I have to make sure to add
export EDITOR=\$EDITOR
to my.bashrc
. (Obviously.)