• Have a really good keyboard-driven desktop environment.
• Many good options for tiling desktop environments.
• Extremely good logging, enabling you to diagnose most problems.
• package manager-first approach: I don't want to manage package installations, routine updates, and dependency resolution myself. Package managers do the work for me
• extreme customizability: I choose which kernel features are turned on or off, and compile them. For example, I can compile in PS4 controller drivers
• first class support for the terminal and terminal-driven workflow
• Enhanced security system: being able to sandbox apps easily, for example.
• Enhanced transparency into the system: can easily get into the weeds of seeing why my Internet is not working.

write your reps

Not useful. And I doubt they are ignorant of our existence.

Exiting cloud being useful seems to be a very narrow use case.

For one, you have to be at a large enough scale where buying and hosting your own infra is feasible and cheaper.

Second, you have to give up the ability to almost instantly scale up or provision hardware in response to traffic or other events. (which is very common at scale)

Maybe his use case happens to be that very narrow case, but this isn't something I would take as general advice.

That would be tldr

I've wanted to try emacs but have been afraid to do so. I like that emacs basically replaces your terminal and just has a semi-OS inside. But I heard the performance is lacking. What do you think?

Do you mean keybindings? I can see that some keybindings are more chording-heavy. I think default keybindings, while nice, should be secondary, as they can be remapped.

That's a fair argument, thanks for showing me the other perspective!

Imho, I prefer an editor that focuses on doing editing right, and provides the interface and APIs for integration with other things. I get the appeal of built-in LSP working OOTB, but I prefer this gets done by distributing the a good editor pre-packaged with LSP and other plugins, sort of like how you get lunarvim or nvchad as neovim with config and plugins ready. This way you get LSP out of the box, but others can customize if they need.

helix [...] shares kakounes keybindings and input system

I get that it is inspired from it, but it felt like a strange in-between to me. It still has 3 modes, and the two non-insert modes seemed not to have a well-defined boundary. It didn't just click with me. Kakoune seems to do it much better imho.

You can do this [shell integration] in vim and helix as well

I know vim has some basic she'll integration, but it is not the same as Kakoune's, unless I missed those features in vim and helix. I don't wanna duplicate things, so I recommend you read the shell section of this page: https://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html

I haven't tried this yet, so I can't answer on Kakoune, but it was something that bothered me in neovim. I use a tiling window manager, and like having the editor tiles be managed by the tiling app. I'll try that out sometime

I have no issue pirating:

• any content with massive profits
• any content made by a very rich entity
• any content where the artists, authors, creators, et al get a minority of the revenue (example: scientific journals, college textbooks). I always search for alternate methods of paying the artists directly if they exist.

None. Arch repos + AUR have the highest availability of any Linux repository.

You can look at the PKGBUILD file and update it yourself. Most of the time it's just a version bump and you're good. If that's the case, I think you can also take over maintaining it if you want to share the wealth.

Or turks. Or Moroccans. Or Africans.

I don't use flatpak. But if your distro does, I imagine it should be pretty easy for them to provide a higher level program that updates both types of packages at once. I think this isn't a big problem.