jennraeross @ jennraeross @lemmy.world

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A couple reasons:

• I really like having my tabs on the side, it just plays well with my vimium workflow
  • This largely narrows it down to Firefox, Vivaldi, Edge, Arc
• I like open source
  • Only Firefox remains

Alas, sorting software is much cheaper to implement than differing hardware, so the cost benefit analysis would work out differently in that case I expect…

Either way is fine usually. If you really care about 1:1 trackpad gestures like I do, get Wayland. If you have an nvidia card, get x11. Otherwise it’s probably not something most people will even notice.

It’s an immutable disto built around distrobox, I believe

Bottom, it’s just easier

Heck yes! I like to read in my terminal, and the go fonts are one of the best monospaced serif fonts I’ve found for the purpose

Presumably they just either haven’t made a proper package for opensuse, or their platform detection isn’t perfect. Since Debian based distros are the most common, sometimes companies will only distribute Deb files…

In any case, I’d personally recommend getting steam via flatpak, it works quite well.

You can still use the old Scrivener for free, it's been floating around as an appimage: https://www.appimagehub.com/p/1262832/

I'm afraid I only own the modern Scrivener through the App Store, so I wouldn't be able to install it on my linux machine to test it #^-;#

Note: while presently only available for mac, I would stick the Arc browser in the league of Vivaldi and Edge. While less customizable than Vivaldi, the level of workspace and tab management it brings are unprecedented.

To second what others have said: VM's aren't suitable for gaming regrettably.

PopOS is a rather reliable distro, and I personally have loved the window tiling features they added, but it should be noted that they only have LTS from a year ago at the moment. I think that's just while they work on their new desktop environment, but the older packages might be a tad bit of a transition coming from Arch.

I love Helix! It's pretty much replaced Vim for me, which was previously my preferred editor for quick changes, as opposed to loading up VSCode for when I'm putting in some sustained work.

Helix required a small amount muscle memory change, but nothing major, and in return I have a text editor which, due to sensible defaults, is exactly the same on all of my devices. I don't need to mess around with plugins (Vim plugins are fun, mind, but it's kind of a waste of time if Helix meets my needs out of the box.)

I don't believe NixOS prevents you from using the standard terminal commands or editing config files. It hooks you up with a different set of tools, ones which are better in some respects, but it doesn't force you to use them.

nix-env -iA is there for a reason, they recognize that sometimes perfection is the enemy of good #^-#