Well, i mean, if mint works for you, its perfect! My suggestions come from my personal experience, demands and regrets, so be ware that they might not suit you, though i believe that one should try everything.

Welcome aboard! I did same like a year before, and it’s been a blast!

If you were me from the past, I would’ve definitely recommended you to try out tiling WMs (Guess AwesomeWM is a good start) ASAP! I can’t stress enough how good they’re, especially if you prefer using keyboard shorcuts over mouse navigation.

Also, if you’ll find linux mint problematic, I want to suggest you to try out EndeavourOS (i wish i would’ve done it sooner myself). It’s installation is as simple, but it’s based on arch, and arch has one of the most comprehensive wikis, which allows you to troubleshoot basically any problem. Also. newer software versions get there faster, and finally AURs, that will allow you to forget about manual software installation at all.

oh, never tried fugtive. I just made a keybind that opens lazygit inside of a helix buffer :D

I was dumb and spoiled by vscode, i wanted to integrate a task runner and a debugger. They both worked kinda shitty compared to what vscode does and i disliked how bloated the config was. Now i simply use GDB as the debugger and Just as the task runner, stickitg to helix more because of the keybinds, integrated tree sitter and other stuff.

I also love to tinker the environment i work in to my liking (love me my gruvbox hyprland), but i’m kinda not a fan of doing everything from scratch, and pre-made configs for nvim either give me agoraphobia by how huge they are, or are too barebones. Helix just clicked for me, because it offers everything necessary out of the box, while allowing to tailor the rest to your liking. Also, because of its editing model which is supperior.

tried it. Now i have ptsd after attempting to config it. that’s why i use helix, seems to work best with minimal configuration. Kakoune makes the most sence out of its keybind paradigm tho

thanks, good to know!

Can someone, please, explain to me, what exactly is the purpose of this distro? On their web they say it’s filling the gap that was created by CestOS discontinuation, but, like, there’s ContOS Stream now??