tldr:
* I installed console-only Debian on an old laptop (no desktop OS at all)
* I added some packages to make it work better for writing:
* network-manager for connecting to hotspots while I'm away
* kmscon for custom fonts and more than 16 colors in the tty
* tmux for a nice status
okay, but why the blue background ?
Doogie Hauser vibes
For the eye strain. Gotta build up those muscles.
The short answer is that it’s presumably some vim theme that he likes, but I’d guess that the origin of that is that DOS text-based applications had a long-running convention — not always universally used — of using white text on blue, unlike the Unix convention of white on black.
You can see that persisting in things like default Midnight Commander color choices (it’s set up to look like the MS-DOS Norton Commander):
…or in Network Manager’s console-menu-based utility,
nmtui. I think that thedialogpackage and prior to that, thenewtpackage, both for showing curses-based menu-based interfaces, also defaulted to white-on-blue, probably for the same reason.Its a woman.
Hate to be that guy, but presumably she?
Probably ‘:colors blue’. I had a brief stint with this scheme cerca early 2000s
Vibes.
edit.com vibes, at that.
Looks like WordPerfect before the wizzywig crap.