Not Linux but there are still a of Unix System V systems out there too. AIX, Solaris and HP-UX. Harder to learn as very much not open source software (although there is the Illumos project with distros like OpenIndiana).
I like a lot of pre-customised versions of GNOME like with Ubuntu or Pop!_OS but (and I'm currently using this on Fedora) the default "out of the box" GNOME experience is a bit rough and unfriendly. Sure I've got it customised now with some fancy top panel stuff but its still clear I just shoehorned in a bunch of GNOME extensions - and I'm still yet to find a tray that is 1) still supported and 2) to my liking.
Linux Mint (and I say this as a Linux Mint user) and its store has caused so many issues for users on one project I'm involved with and probably with another too.
Basically we don't yet support flatpak for a number of reasons and the 'community' flatpak option shown in the store comes with a bunch of broken features (if you dont want to get into flatseal etc) as well as a less then obvious way for users to upgrade versions.
For a particular application i would go what they actually support and have as an installation option.
No, it would require an awful lot of development, there are quite a few native modules. For a browser ide i would check out phcode.dev which is a development of Adobe's brackets editor.
I've been keeping a list of alternatives for a while now that I really like:
Pulsar - An actively developed fork of Atom once Microsoft killed it off. Disclosure: I'm on the Pulsar team so I'm more than a little biased here but if you want to get involved we are always after people who want to contribute and we have a very friendly and active Discord server. First thing we did was re-implement the package backend and migrate it so we were able to keep the thousands and thousands of community packages for download.
Lite-XL - A really lightweight and fast editor written in C and Lua that is very actively developed. I use this on some less powerful systems.
Lapce - Another lightweight and very fast editor written in Rust and is in the middle of moving to their own UI framework. Not that extensible at the moment but supports LSP plugins.
Then for terminal based editors I really like Helix which is vim-like but uses a selection -> action model (like Kakoune). I really like it because it requires almost no configuration.
For my own sake? All I did was state my opinion on the matter (and mention of others that I know share this same opnion) of what kind of mental imagry 1776 brings up as opposed to what the company seem to intend. What on earth do I get out of sharing such an opinion? It isn't like I have shares in a competing brand where I will benefit from swaying people's opnions on System 76.
Correct, I'm describing the puritans. Either way it has nothing to do with the current association of what "1776" looks like to outside parties which is what this is about - not a discussion on who did what a couple of hundred years ago.
Well yeah... but these were people who thought the church reforms weren't enough for them and wanted to make the entire country more "godly" by purging all traces of catholicsm and then leaving to cross an entire ocean to set up a new godly society.
Not that I think necessarily the left/right wing divide as we currently know it can be applied to history like that but I'm not so sure we can categorise the hyper-religious separatists as not being right wing at all. Either way, history isn't the point here, the association many have of the kinds of people that tout "1776" everywhere tends to be the wife-beater wearing, massive pickup toting, 2fa enthusiasts obsessed with tramping people's rights in the name of "muh freedums".
xplr I probably use more (like nnn) for the tasks I would normally reach for a GUI file manager where broot I use (probably under-use) it as a fancy tree and ls - i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around
Not Linux but there are still a of Unix System V systems out there too. AIX, Solaris and HP-UX. Harder to learn as very much not open source software (although there is the Illumos project with distros like OpenIndiana).