Wow! Finally a niri user out in the wild! I’m super curious to hear about your experiences with it—do you find it to be stable enough for day to day use? What’s your workflow like? How’s it compare to what you’ve used before?

Yeah actually is there a way to NOT have nano on the system? I’d really like to remove it…

Always nice to see Helix :)

I think it’s possible to remap Helix to be almost (if not completely) Vim-like. I got it to be (I think completely) Kakoune-like with like 15 lines in my config.

I think it's also worth pointing out the social factor in pen/paper notes as well—jotting things down on a notepad seems a lot more attentive than typing into your phone.

The best way to understand really is to install both and try yourself, but basically I would say Kakoune is more "radical" than Helix, which feels more like Vim. Both move the selection in normal mode, but Helix has you extend it using what's basically visual mode, whereas Kakoune cuts out visual mode altogether and has you hold Shift. As you can see in the config, reconfiguring what Shift does causes issues with normal Vim bindings (like joining selections with J), so Kakoune solves this with Alt.

After using it for a few days, it made a lot of sense to my brain—I would say, in general, Kakoune feels enormously well thought-out and carefully considered in every element of its design.

Out of curiosity, what program are you using to write? I think I saw they have a web editor, but I there’s a neovim plugin (and maybe an LSP) as well I think.

I was able to go zero to Nix in probably 6-10 hours, and could’ve done it sooner if I’d known about this sooner (and I’m not a super technical person).

P.S—

My main problem is screen tearing (my display refresh seems to be 59.999, and I notice this when moving windows around or watching 60 FPS video or even just scrolling PDFs)—is that something Wayland would even help at all? Am I just wasting my time here?

FreeBSD has rollbacks like Nix?

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