Lisps makes more sense to me though

(if condition a b)

VS

a if condition else b

EXTERMINATE?

like why does every font, except ubuntu, have these ugly af corners?

Not a font guy, but isn’t it just mimicking how humans use strokes to write?

It looks nicer, and it’s easier to read for me tbh.

Common Lisp on the other hand is more of a 1980s language where you can use a functional style some of the time, and with some pain.

Isn’t the main issue with it that you’re not forced to be functional? It’s supposed to be pretty good at it with the correct libraries.

Either way, you’d start by reading SICP

You really don’t want OP to learn lis

Did anyone else read it as “vi bing” at first?

I initially tried guix -> switched to nix with home-manager because it’s got a lot better repos -> installed all user packages through nix on Debian -> nixos

Before nixos I used flatpaks for some packages because nixgl seems abandoned.

Why are you even running arch at that point, for the DE updates?

http://xahlee.info/kbd/how_to_press_control_key.html

Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it’s called a rhetorical question

Most mainstream OSes have GUI for anything you’d need to do as a novice.

And how is Linux any different?

I’ve literally had a non-technical person who used Linux for less than a week fix an issue through the xfce gui while I was googling a solution.

You just need to choose a correct distro and DE for the job.

More like a restaurant that has Korean BBQ / hot pot on the menu. Most meals are completely prepared, but for some you need to do a small part yourself.

I get that for sure, but you can still use it only for specific tasks like org-mode LaTeX. It was literally made by some astronomer/astrophysicist to make writing LaTeX easier.

Come to the evil side, we have org-mode

vim user

LaTeX user

When you go to the wrong side

I thought emacs was all about ctrl + ?.

It is, but you have gui features

I use Emacs and neovim. Each is better in different scenarios.

Vim and emacs usually run in the terminal and require keyboard commands to complete actions.

It is most certainly not usual to run Emacs in the terminal.

although of course it’s possible to use keyboard commands.

And you can use Emacs with a mouse.

I mean, it’s an IBM ThinkPad, it is slow. Linux just makes it usable.

Should be pointing at the monitor. Xkill only stops showing the process, it doesn’t kill it.

Got the same message, but from a different issue

Doom Emacs and lazyvim nvim.

Don’t know about helix, and don’t really care.

Modal is incomparably more comfortable, that’s the main benefit.

The problem that I have is that learning new editing keybindings would probably take me a month of time, before I get to the same amount of productivity

Do you imagine vi-based editors don’t let you use your mouse or what? Go through vim-tutor, learn the basic shortcuts you need, and you’re back to your old productivity in a few days. You don’t need to learn vi" to select a string, you can just use your mouse.

No offense to you or your habits, but C-arrow is an idiotic movement scheme. If you have to leave the home row to move around the text, you fucked up.

Just go through vim tutor…