WordPerfect continued to thrive in the legal industry for years to come due to its “reveal codes” feature and the way it counted words.

Here’s a post about that from 2008.

https://ask.metafilter.com/96820/Why-do-so-many-laywers-use-WordPerfect

Kill the same people twice

There is a newish “placeholder text” option. It could be displayed there and disappear when typing starts.

Yes. The message could be added to the prompt but it wouldn’t look the best.

I tried a USB KVM switcher. I only recall there were serious issues and it didn’t last long.

Now I use a high quality USB dock and physically unplug/re-replug a work and personal laptop. That’s been a simple and reliable solution.

For my home server, I ssh into it.

I remember that this existed, but I don’t remember why.

Corel was known for a drawing program and later for WordPerfect. They were never well known for their involvement with Linux.

Correct. Not just hype but to make it “Like Windows, but free”.

Even then it could be themed to a degree and some distros tried to look more like Windows than others.

OP hasn’t met 17-bean soup yet.

I discovered this more than a year ago, but Fuzzel.

I just wrote about the new release here:

https://mark.stosberg.com/feature-packed-app-launcher-and-fuzzer/

Ballots are already getting printed and early voting will start soon.