I’ve begun switching my to Emacs + evil mode and I thoroughly enjoy it, it fulfills this ‘customization’ gap I’ve wanted for years.
If you want to just jump in and try out Emacs, use Doom Emacs. If you want to go on the journey of making your own config, take a look at “Emacs from Scratch” [1]. It’s been great for me so far.
[1]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEoMzSkcN8oPH1au7H6B7bBJ4...
I3 is what brought me to Linux. A true, proper, no-compromises tiling window manager is the killer feature. I didn't go to FreeBSD (given how much I love ZFS) because of containers/docker/podman (and how native fast container stuff is on Linux given it's just abstractions over things in the kernel ... yes yes BSDs have jails but we don't use BSD at work so...) and gaming on Linux (thank you Valve! and wine and proton folks).
Re Emacs every few months I try to dabble but the vi/vim muscle memory is just so so so hard to break. That being said for neovim I use AstroNvim. It's been dope.
That being said I love the idea of living in my editor. That's all i do on i3 anyway with neovim.
How is the stability? If you open a huge file in emacs or something since emacs is your graphical session and it blows up the whole ui and everything goes down too?
this + emacs + evil mode might be fun for me a vim diehard to try.