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For me, I really want to get into niri, but the lack of XWayland support scares me (I know there’s solutions, but I don’t understand them yet).

Also, I stopped using Emacs (even though I love its design and philosophy with my whole heart) because it’s very slow, even as a daemon.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I want to use Neovim but I haven't gotten around to really learning it yet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I used neovim but recently switched to helix and highly recommend it. If you haven't tried nvim yet, give helix a try before deciding. A good way to compare is do the tutorial of each and see which you like more nvim +Tutor and hx --tutor (orhelix --tutor).

If you're a current vim user the helix keybindings are only a small learning curve after the tutorial, and feel a lot smoother imo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on what helix is?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A keyboard and terminal based text editor, similar in some ways to neovim, vim, and vi

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