yeah, if you bind ctrl c and ctrl v to copy and paste keys, you can get the same behavior in terminals and other apps that have weird default bindings for ctrl c and v for historical reasons

it is nice to be able to plug your keyboard into a new computer and have all your shortcuts and layout set up though. I do that so I have the same layout and shortcuts on my personal and work computers regardless of os

no, there are dedicated keycodes for copy and paste, and you can bind them to whatever

ctrl v is convention for paste, but plenty of things (ex terminals) use that for something else. this is a universal (wrt the app receiving it) keycode that means paste. it lets you bind a key, or a keyboard shortcut, to the paste key and paste in any app. without this it isn’t possible.

it doesn’t even have to be a new programmable keyboard. there exist software key remappers for linux.

you could remap a mouse button to paste, you could remap ctrl v to always paste regardless of the app, etc., all in software, all not possible before.

it seems like a new version of this kind of thing pops up often enough, but it seems like the people making them have never heard of AppStream. like I guess managing webapps too is unique, but everything else and more support AppStream, along with existing gui managers like kde discover, gnome software, etc

it legitimately is a neutral network, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_pre-trained_transformer

they are the first thing that comes up when searching “cursor” in both ddg and google, so I think they’re doing ok

idk if 2 users is fair, it may just be my circles but I see nixos mentioned more than almost anything else on lemmy/hn/etc in the past couple years

the instructions for installing on not nixos https://nixos.org/download/

plenty of package managers have.

flatpak doesn’t require any admin to install a new app

nixos doesn’t run any code at all on your machine for just adding a package assuming it’s already been cached. if it hasn’t been cached it’s run in a sandbox. the cases other package managers use post install configuration scripts for are a different mechanism which possibly has root access depending on what it is.

seems like everything. canonical has it listed as still evaluating. it requires you to open a url with emacs though, so shouldn’t be that bad to avoid.

most things seem to have settled on this, but tabs are so much better for accessibility. programmers with bad vision can have trouble differentiating smaller indentation levels, while some of them just bump the font size up so high that 4 spaces takes up too much screen space. each one can set a tab width that is comfortable for them. https://alexandersandberg.com/articles/default-to-tabs-instead-of-spaces-for-an-accessible-first-environment/ has some good arguments

with a forced formatter and a configured editor there really isn’t any argument for spaces

alpine fits that, or derivatives like postmarketos

have you considered https://github.com/a-schaefers/systemE plus https://github.com/emacs-exwm/exwm ? that’s basically an entire emacs userland

4 to 5 added like 2 tags, but was fully backwards compatibile. the painful upgrade you’re thinking of was 3 to 4 where they basically rewrote, it but don’t have any tutorial content other than one of the main devs making an absurdly long series of walkthrough videos so it’s impossible to find the topic you’re interested in

the codebase readability certainly suffers, and this isn’t the only case of shenanigans like this

found the following in our codebase the other day.

while(booleanFlag)
    return;

thhere wasn’t more in the loop body, that was it. the loop conditional does exist and it can hurt you.

linting config itself wouldn’t be defined there, and it would be verified in ci and such, but a setting to tell vscode which linter and extension it should use to show warnings would be.

modern languages may have their own way for configuration but they don’t have a way to bind it to the list of vscode tasks and define how to run a debugger, which is the part that gets stored.

it’s easy to go overboard with extension suggestions, but I don’t think adding an extension for linter used, extension for formatter used, and any languages used if there’s a definitive extension.

My team is split between visual studio, vscode, and I use emacs. we have config for both vs and vscode in our repos since it makes working on a new project so much nicer and means we aren’t just sharing editor configs through side channels instead. it doesn’t do anything to me if I have editor config for an IDE I don’t use in the repo, but it makes it easier for someone new to jump in with a sort of same environment immediately

but if there’s a bug I’ll know exactly which line to look at

that doesn’t sound right, it’s so much smaller if it’s just one line