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I get that it's open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

baby steps. ill be on neovim one day i swear!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

vim and neovim actually hold a pretty significant marketshare on Linux. a lot of developers use MacOS or Windows, so what does it matter if one more small thing is proprietary? It obviously does matter, but people don't think of it that way.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I honestly don't get it. I had to use it on a job until recently and needed a few plugins for it to be useful. Every major plugin either got worse over time or never fully functioned to begin with. On top of that, it was sometimes slow as fuck despite me having a rather strong machine.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Because it's one of the few good microsoft products

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Y’all use VSCode??? Whatever happened to good ol’ Sublime Text?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Sublime Text is proprietary, which makes it a non-starter for many including myself. VS Code, on the other hand, might be developed by Microsoft but there is a liberated version called VSCodium that has none of the telemetry and such.

That being said, on GNU/Linux I prefer Kate.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I hate Windows. I'm too young for all that Microsoft drama, so they're fine in my books.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

What's interesting about it?

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