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Honestly, that’s very encouraging! Thank you so much for providing me with very valuable insights and information! Have a good one! Cheers!

Thank you so much for your insights! Much appreciated!

Some packages haven’t been changed in 10 years, some are changed daily. It’s bleeding edge everything, and things don’t actually break that much. Lisp makes for (obviously IMO) beautiful, simple code, so most packages are a pleasure to fix, extend, or automate.

I want to have a better idea for much time is spend on ‘management’; fix, extend and/or automate etc.

If you want to use Linux on your laptop, is there any reason not to go for ‘dedicated’ Linux laptops?

FWIW, I haven’t seen these Linux-first vendors being mentioned under your post yet: NovaCustom and Star Labs.

This looks kinda cool. Thank you for tagging/pinging me! I’ll take a look and perhaps bother you (or others) at a later moment with questions 😅.

Hmm, one I guess is that it is not “permanent” and deactivates after one command (in Kakoune, you have to explicitly do ‘;’ to collapse the selection to its end (which you can flip with the start using ‘alt+;’) or move around without extending the selection). That’s really the only thing I can think of at the moment and I feel like often it really doesn’t matter tbh, so maybe I was just talking out of my ass there a bit lmao.

Regardless; thank you for mentioning this!

Apparently you can quickly reselect it in vim with ‘gv’ though, which I never checked until now. That’s useful to know.

Hehe, thanks for sharing that; might become useful soon 😅.

One thing I’m really missing from vim though is that it can list directories, has a hex editor, and can read a bunch of other file formats. I think it can even edit remote files over sftp, but maybe I’m confusing that with Emacs. Kakoune just does local text files (though you can of course do stuff like ‘%|xxd’ to pipe the file through xxd to get a hex view, edit and then ‘%|xxd -r’ and save but that feels very very sketchy).

Until yesterday I knew almost nothing about Kakoune. But I’ve since tried to do some reading; while there’s still a lot to uncover and/or explore, I feel as if it tries to offer a more focused experience (for better or worse).

Makes a lot of sense.

Thank you so much for chiming in and sharing your knowledge and experiences! Much appreciated!

I probably started with Vim

Hehe, I assume it has been some time since you started this journey.

Thank you for your contributions to the conversation 😊!

Thanks a lot for sharing your insights and experiences on this! Kickstart.nvim has surely caught my interest and I would like to play with it to see how much I can make it resemble LunarVim and the others in functionality and if there’s anything worthwhile that remains to be missing. If not, then perhaps I’ll be relying on Kickstart.nvim instead. Once again; thank you!

I’m not surprised to hear that you preferred Fedora Silverblue over openSUSE MicroOS. Don’t get me wrong, I think that openSUSE Aeon/Kalpa (current names for openSUSE MicroOS Desktop) have a lot of potential. However, as it stands, Fedora’s Atomic Desktops are just more mature.

With the amount of different distros you’ve tried (though mostly derivatives of Arch/Debian), I’m actually surprised to see that you haven’t used any derivative of Fedora. Is there any reason in particular?