I’m also biased, because I was using Ubuntu since it came out, up until a few years ago 🤷♂️
Yes. Same here. I’ll complain about pain points in Gnome all day, but I owe the various gnome contributors many thanks. Gnome has been a more than good enough daily driver for me plenty of times.
If you have the luxury of access to multiple computers, or the expertise to dual boot, those are what worked for me.
I ran Linux and Windows side by side for years.
Over time, returning to the Windows shifted from “Ah, nice and familiar” to “oh, not this bullshit, again”.
Once I was comfortable with both, all the corporate bullshit became very noticable on Windows.
Well done. I read that in Ron Howard’s voice.
Does Vim have any live markdown preview or plugins that enable that?
Yes. I recognize some of the ones mentioned in this article as ones I have appreciated, in the past.
https://www.w3tutorials.net/blog/is-there-a-vim-plugin-for-previewing-markdown-files/
If it does that would be quite interesting
Oh yeah!
I’m not actually trying to get you to switch, but your post reads to me as someone ready to bring in some serious tooling to achieve a precise workflow.
Vim still might be a bit extreme, haha. As you know, it has a whole learning curve. If you decide to give it a spin, be sure to try :vimtutor, it is nice.
Anyway, setting aside vim, it sounds to me like your needs call for an editor with a strong open plugin ecosystem.
I understand that Emacs and VSCodium also have excellent Markdown plugins.
LoL.
I’m just sharing what I use. I can’t help that I was indoctrinated so young into the cult of Vim.
I don’t think Vim has a way to show all my notes in one place, or any way to organise notes? (unless it does, you never know)
Many use the “Nerd Tree” plugin for this, but there’s…too many options.
I want to explore other options before I fall into the rabbit hole
I respect that. The rabbit hole goes very deep. In your shoes, I might still take a look at an editor with a strong plugin ecosystem, like Emacs or VSCodium. Is Atom still around? Atom was nice.
You have very specific requirements. You may attract the Vim and Emacs fans…
Joking aside, I have very specific requirements, and I just use Vim to edit Markdown, on desktop.
So of course anyone decent boycotts JP Morgan Chase.
Yea. I do.
Haha. Of course, I also boycott mobsters, murderers and carjackers to the best of my ability, out of the same instinct for self preservation.
I hope folks are wising up about the dangers of getting involved with Chase.
Your logic is sound.
The motive and skillet are certainly there.
But there sure are many eyes on RedHat’s source code, and IBM has a lot to lose if they got caught putting in a back door.
Plus, the US government uses it for their own sensitive stuff, so one would hope they have the wisdom not to shit where they eat, installing a back door that 100% would get used against them.
None of my arguments really outweigh yours, if I’m honest.
But I also don’t blame anyone who trusts RedHat Linux, today.
We need to find a way to cut the slop problem off at its source, but I have no idea how that could actually work.
Agreed. Stopping giving money to Microsoft seems like a place to start.
Github has gone downhill.
CodeBerg is really nice, has a free tier, and has guided tutorials for migration.
I moved my work out of spite for GitHub’s warmongering parent company.
And then I was pleasantly surprised by how nice CodeBerg is.
+1 to this line on inquiry.
When I’ve managed to get a modern Linux desktop to freeze, I’ve had a bad power supply, or heat issues, each time ( specifically when I have had a full freeze, where even the alternate terminals didn’t respond ).
No, I can’t access another tty during a freeze, unfortunately.
That’s may be a hint!
The only times I’ve had the desktop freeze on Linux and the alternate terminals fail to respond, I had a hardware issue.
In one case, I was on a Raspberry Pi, and my power supply was not delivering clean enough power for the board.
In another case, my fan wasn’t connected properly and the motherboard was overheating.
Edit: Oh! I think I had this behavior once with a RAM stick that was terribly subtly not quite all the way in the slot.
knowing nod
Yes. I used to de-bloat Windows, myself.
The path ahead of you contains power…and freedom.
Like how can it be fun?
So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.
When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.
The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10¢ candy store. “I can just have as much of this as I want.”
Well done! You’re doing important work, letting her chill instead of get scammed. Besides the money loss, many of those phone scams are also traumatizing.
Hahaha! Thank you!
I agree, of course.
I thought time might cool it, but no. It’s still as enraging today to remember.
Exactly the link I was going to search for!
Those fuckers at Sony made me wipe and rebuild my PC, for the “crime” of listening to one of their fucking CDs at my desk one time.
(Sony’s virus caused all kinds of bugs, and then people who didn’t wipe and rebuild immediately were getting infected by worse viruses within a few days, because Sony’s virus fucked up the PCs defenses so badly.)
I figured I would be less pissed this long later, but I’m not.
Fuck Sony. I’m mad just thinking about it long enough to post this confirmation.
That is what did it, for me. Fuck Sony.
Did I mention “fuck Sony”? Fuck Sony. Bunch of virus writing assholes.
I love the phrase “ricing my daily Debian driver”.
I do often have this feeling “everyone could be enjoying this”.
Once in awhile it comes out when someone asks me about how I countered some Microsoft or Apple bullshit, and I admit I jumped ship and have been enjoying software freedom.
A few have actually switched after interrogating me about my experiences.