Yep. Void's been surprising me for over a decade, since it was still "new", at how well kitted out it is, and what a joy of simplicity and cleanliness it is. Rarely any hunting down the superfluous complexity of a package's name-extra-words-after-the-program-name. A real joy. Very few complaints. Big love for VoidLinux.
I used gentoo on not-powerful-computer, because it was not a powerful computer. Did not care about the compile times. Cared about the performance when I was using it. Even did a ```USE="-*" setup once or twice, to keep it even more lean on resources, and more focused to meet needs and no more unecessary fluff and bloat than that.
Yep. I found that when I used GuixSD too. Never yet mustered the time and effort for NixOS. Much the same deal though, just with less transferable skills learned. And yeah, contrary to the advertised hype of safety in fallback, I found it too easy to break. I say easy... It was still a lot of hard work involved though.
Writing a good text editor is something to be proud of, so that’s awesome!
Well, proud of my accomplishment as I am, ...
I never said it's good.
It's merely usable.
And even that may yet prove debatable. ;)
I don’t use any version of Commander on this machine, and I don’t plan to. I used the original from Norton back in the day, but when Windows 3 hit, I used Norton Desktop to improve it (basically into what Win95 became), and never looked at a Commander interface again - if I want two side-by-side directories, I have a windowing system.
First time I recall anyone responding to my suggestion of mcedit in a way that looks like they know what I'm talking about. :)
gedit seems to be doing the job. I’ve never heard of kate before this thread, I’ll have to look it up.
Kate is to KDE, like gedit is to GNOME. It's been a while since I used gedit, but Kate recently [(well, a couple years ago]) inspired me to add one of it's nice features (the minimap) to my emacs.
Never looked at nano, but I heard of it.
M$ Edit
Just remembered, there's now also M$'s edit (iirc that's the name "edit") available for windows, that's basically notepad for the terminal user interface.
My "fin"'s similar (and simpler ~ because I've yet to get back to padding out its [even basic] features), in that it also uses cua keybind model (ctrl+s = save, etc).
good time to go exploring others... e.g. emacs1, neovim, mcedit (from mc (midnightcommander)), geany, kate, nano, or even go crazy and write your own (... no kidding. I did, last year. fin)
1 probably best avoid emacs, unless you want it to take over your computing and your life.
I was a rabid distro-hopper, going through several large spools of CD & DVD, before switching to USB pendrives, for countless more distro-hopppings and distro-surfings.... until 2012, when I found Bedrock Linux (at its second alpha release). Didn't need to try to find the one distro any more, able to mix several.
Worth revisiting now. :)
You want the USE flags. enticing gesturing