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  • Eugenia@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlFOSS IDEs recommendations?
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    8 hours ago

    My husband, who mostly codes in assembly these days (he’s mostly retired so his hobby is old atari, amstrad, and spectrum computers), went from VSCode, to Sublime, to now Kate. He prefers to use 100% open source apps, without strings attached. VSCode is nice, but it has lots of weird stuff in it that aren’t necessarily up to the spirit of open source. So Kate works perfectly for him, although VSCodium would do well as well (it’s just that Kate has better syntax highlighters for his weird assembly). Also VSCode/ium is using about 250 MB of RAM, while Kate about 45 (and Sublime only about 32).








  • Unlike what people reply here out of ignorance, your thinking is correct, meaning, that Google has already done the hard work to create a TRULY modern OS, with proper usability, security, and yes, a way better compositor than wayland (in fact, android has the best compositor in the world, compared to ANY OS). A properly modified desktop OS based on it (better than Samsung’s DeX for example), that is also able to run normal Linux apps, would be a huge winner.






  • Eugenia@lemmy.mltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldWho is excited?
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    12 days ago

    Anticheat is kernel compromise. No one should be using games that use that, or OSes that allow it.

    As for fulfillment, unless you need very specific apps to do your job, I’m sure it can be fulfilling with the right DE and distro. For me, I’m using Linux since 1998, and I still prefer Mint over Arch, for example. It just works.






  • It’s a case of people not buying new computers anymore as much as they used to. They have reached a speed that’s acceptable to them, so they don’t see the point of upgrading. Same with phones, everyone was buying a new phone every year until about 2017. Then it slowed down because phones matured, there was no point chasing new hardware anymore. So now we have people using old phones, and old laptops. That’s why there were so many angry people at Ms for asking them to upgrade in order to install Win11. They didn’t want to upgrade, their laptop felt fast enough.