boonhet comments on Visor Is a New Graphical UEFI Boot Manager for Linux

Visor Is a New Graphical UEFI Boot Manager for Linux (linuxiac.com)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/linux@programming.dev

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This looks interesting. It's very new, so it will likely be a while before any OS would adopt it, but it definitely shows promise of a possible alternative to grub down the road

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ah I meant the comment itself read like that.

Especially the super strict line lengths. Claude Code does that, sometimes it seems like it has a strict 80 or whatever character limit per comment line

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[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I personally format all comments to 80 (using vim's gw command) and never touch LLMs.

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[–] NanoooK@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Why 80? It feels so restricted to have that short line.

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[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Because long lines are bad for splits and/or vertical monitors. You don't know the viewport the code will be read in, so keeping to a conservative width is helpful. If things wrap or require scrolling, that's a lot worse for legibility, whereas having lines limited to 80 has minimal impact on legibility.

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