First step of my journey for rediscovering the straight path (aka I’m using again GNU Emacs after many years)

“… mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ché la diritta via era smarrita …” (Divina Commedia – Canto I)

Like Dante in his allegoric journey, I (also) “found myself deep in a darkened forest, for I had lost all trace of the straight path” in the computing world.

The “darkened forest” in which I found myself is the world of proprietary software, in fact I found myself using some of the wrong (as in closed source) operating systems, programming languages and text editors. Sometimes there is no alternative in using proprietary software (i.e. a compiler for a strange architecture, a library that I absolute need to use for my daytime job).

But why I wasn’t using free software for the operating system and (even more) the text editor when there are the free software alternatives, and many of them are also technically better (way better), than the proprietary software I was using? That’s simple I just followed the hype. Read more of this post