The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCode gorilla

Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by no_wizard on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:30PM (#25815859)

This all highlights is a lot of choices and “do this don’t do that” kind of things I don’t like about the Linux Desktop environment, I don’t want to think about these kinds of things in my usage of a desktop. It’s a summation of everything I find lacking in the Linux desktop community

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by axaxs on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:36PM (#25816426)

Sure, but there are a lot of distros out there that do these things for you. Solus Gnome is probably my favorite out of the box experience. It's basically pre-configured exactly how I tune Gnome myself.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by chii on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:45PM (#25816936)

But how would you know to use that particular distribution, before becoming an expert first and know exactly what pre-configuration to look for? Knowing this pre-configuration is as difficult as knowing how to make such pre-configurations imho.

On windows, there's no choice. On mac osx, there's no choice (unless you try to mod it yourself after the fact).

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by Filligree on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:37PM (#25876062)

I ended up trying Solus.

It turns out I can't install it, because the installer bundles an old version of the nouveau driver, the nouveau driver crashes on my hardware, they've deleted the nvidia driver package for the version of Solus that's on the ISO (along with every other package), and there's no terminal-mode installer or any other workaround.

If you want to install Solus, and the year-old installer doesn't work in GUI mode, then you're SOL.

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