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Welcome to libre

A comm dedicated to the fight for free software with an anti-capitalist perspective.

The struggle for libre computing cannot be disentangled from other forms of socialist reform. One must be willing to reject proprietary software as fiercely as they would reject capitalism. Luckily, we are not alone.

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Resources

Free Software, Free Society provides an excellent primer in the origins and theory around free software and the GNU Project, the pioneers of the Free Software Movement.
Switch to GNU/Linux! If you're still using Windows in $CURRENT_YEAR, flock to Linux Mint!; Apple Silicon users will want to check out Asahi Linux.
Social Media Recommendations:

The Linux Experiment: Weekly news host for Linux/libre software related news.
Nicco Loves Linux: Developer for KDE who makes interesting videos.
David Revoy: An incredible artist with a cool webcomic, all done with GNU/Linux.
Michael Horn: Makes videos about his various experiences with Linux.

Rules

Be on topic: Posts should be about free software and other hacktivst struggles. Topics about general tech news should be in the technology comm or programming comm.
Avoid using misleading terms/speading misinformation: Here's a great article about what those words are. In short, try to avoid parroting common Techbro lingo and topics.
Avoid being confrontational: People are in different stages of liberating their computing, focus on informing rather than accusing. Debatebro nonsense is not tolerated.
All site-wide rules still apply

Artwork

Xenia was meant to be an alternative to Tux and was created (licensed under CC0) by Alan Mackey in 1996.
Comm icon (of Xenia the Linux mascot) was originally created by @ioletsgo
Comm banner is a close up of "Dorlotons Degooglisons" by David Revoy (CC-BY 4.0) for Framasoft

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What Text/Code Editor Do Y'all Use? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me, I've been looking into Lapce and lite-xl a lot recently. I really like the idea of extremely lightweight text editors that try to compete with Codium (libre binary of VScode).

What text/code editors do y'all use? I want to try them out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Helix, it's a nice alternative to Neovim because I don't want to spend hours configuring plugins. It has everything I need built in and works out of the box. It's also written in Rust 🦀

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used Helix a lot in the past before being indoctrinated into GNU Emacs. I really liked it's newer take on modal editing and as you said all the configuration is done for you.

Also the fact that it compiles with a ton of cool themes haha.

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

fidel-salute to anyone willing to learn Emacs, as the video says: "Emacs is not that hard, you can learn Emacs in one day, every day"