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Should I look for an alternative to firefox in Fedora? in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I've been using Librewolf for quite some time now and am genuinely very happy with it. All the big distros package it, so it's not hard to install. You can scale up/down how private you want your experience and then see how that breaks sites if that's a concern for you.

Looking to get away from Sublime; Sell me on your favorite non-modal text editor! in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

usually, yes. It can be used almost amodally, especially if you use the GUI interface, but there are some pretty important features that just can't be used without switching modes

Looking to get away from Sublime; Sell me on your favorite non-modal text editor! in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Helix looks interesting, but it won't work for me for some of the same reasons that Vim doesn't. Again, my calcified brain's problems and not a problem with those interfaces.

My limited understanding is that Helix's dev(s?) actually did work on Vim's codebase and want to put what they learned there to good use.

Looking to get away from Sublime; Sell me on your favorite non-modal text editor! in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Zed's web page seems to come down pretty heavily on the pro-LLM side of things. Do you know if that can be toggled off or not?

Looking to get away from Sublime; Sell me on your favorite non-modal text editor! in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Lapce is definitely going on my to-experiment-with list.

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Looking to get away from Sublime; Sell me on your favorite non-modal text editor! (lemmy.world)
 

I purchased a license for Sublime a few years ago, when I seriously thought that the way forward for me was to continue working in IT. That didn't play out, so I'm now free to expunge one more piece of proprietary software from my life.

I've spent literally years at a time with modal text editors as a job requirement, and I know that I just don't work well with them. This is not to say that Vim and Emacs are anything less than excellent. This is a me problem and not a them problem.

The editors I've found that have worked best for me in the past are probably Textmate and Sublime. Notepad++ runs a close third, and there is a Linux port these days!

The one thing I will not do is Electron-based editors. Besides the enormous resource usage of having a browser instance fired up for them, I've had malware try to coopt the JS backends of Electron text editors in the past. (On an interesting short-term contract gig cleaning malware out of websites.) It's left me pretty gunshy, and I don't need extra stress.

I've been down the lists of editors at certain wikis, and experimented with several of them. Kate seems like the best GUI editor and Micro seems like the best terminal-based editor.

However, I've been living in a relative vacuum on this subject for more than a decade and would appreciate others' opinions.

Canonical's Steam Snap is Causing Headaches for Valve in c/linux@lemmy.world
[–] gmhh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This smacks of 'Canonical realizes it has to shoehorn in all popular apps to make Snap capable of competing with Flatpak'. Steam is, for better or worse, one of the most popular applications in the world right now.

Right now, Canonical is doing the same thing Sony does whenever they try to float a new media format: Beg, Borrow, Steal, Blackmail, Bribe, and Bully anyone they can into using it to try to maintain some control over the future of that media. Also, right now, they're in the same place that Sony WAS in when VHS hit the market. Betamax/Snap was/is failing not just for technical reasons, but because it's bad for everyone around for one bully to control an entire market.