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  • 5 years ago I would default to Mint because of how pain free the installation and setup process was. It would magically fix all the sound/sleep/firmware etc. issues other distros had.

    Now Debian has caught up to it IMHO. Yes, you still have to add some non-free repos or firmware packages but it’s really easy and after that it’s mostly smooth sailing. The stability and simplicity of Debian is hard to beat. I’ve spent years on testing version and never had a single issue with an upgrade. It’s rock solid.



  • Everything just works out of the box. It’s a pretty massive difference from the world of Vim, where a significant investment to figure out how to customize your editor to your liking is required.

    Ok, so the issue I have with this is that “customizing” is not the same as “making it work”. Very often I will have a working environment and I will still spend 30 minutes looking for a color theme that I like. Two completely different things. The benefit of investing significant amount of time to configure something is that while you’re figuring out how to make something work you’re also making it work exactly the way you like it.

    That being said, neovim is really hard to configure correctly. I had some many weird issues with LSP recently that I’m definitely open to trying something new like Helix.