Excellent find.

I also noticed this, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt as Arch is a community-driven distro and perhaps they were trying to allude to that fact.

I have to agree with the positivism surrounding Kate. It has been the only one (together with KDevelop) out of the 5 text editors I've installed and tested since yesterday that actually did what I desired from it. Props to the devs! Let's see if it can dethrone Emacs 😜.

Thank you!

I tested Notepad Next, which seems to be Notepad++' cross-platform alternative. However, I wasn't able to get the folding functionality on a Markdown file. Am I doing something wrong?

I've tried Kate since yesterday, it has been one of the better ones for now.

JetBrains Fleet seems like a cool project. But I'll probably wait until it's open sourced. Thanks anyways!

I am starting to attest this. I've tested a couple of text editors since yesterday and -surprisingly- only Kate (and KDevelop) have (so far) been able to pull this off.

But how is it a security nightmare? Or did you mean "distraction", but chose to use "nightmare" for -I suppose- exaggeration (or similar/related reasons)?

doesn’t matter if you downloaded malicious code

Hmm..., please help me understand: say, I installed a flatpak that included malicious code. But, it required some permission to enact upon its maliciousness. Which, it never received. And thus, if my understanding is correct, it couldn't enact upon its maliciousness. How didn't Flatpak's security model not matter in this case? Apologies if I sound obnoxious (or whatsoever)*, but I'm genuinely trying to understand your case.

I suppose you're referring to the following resources. Am I right?

• https://fedoramagazine.org/building-your-own-atomic-bootc-desktop/
• https://blue-build.org/
• https://github.com/ublue-os/image-template

What is the kernel version on your system? On both Linux Mint and Ubuntu*

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that we didn't get any alternative in return. Right?

With no Adobe CC on Linux

How's this?

Aight, gotcha. That whole business with "out of tree kernel modules" and having to "use toolbox to force out of tree software to function" definitely sounds like a pain, especially for the kind of user OP was talking about. I can see why those would be headaches in that specific context.

It's just, when I first read that original line about atomic distros making "...many things a person may eventually want to do with their machine a lot more complicated," my brain kinda went, 'Whoa, many things? Like, for anybody who might want to dig in a bit more eventually, beyond OP's initial scenario?'

So, hearing about the driver stuff and the app install workarounds... yeah, those are definitely a couple of solid examples that start to flesh out what 'many things' could mean, even in that wider sense. Helping me connect some dots, for sure. Still kinda leaves you wondering what else is on the 'many things' menu, eh? :P

That being said, my other frustration was a lack of easily discoverable in-depth documentation.

That's indeed a big concern. Thanks for mentioning that.

FWIW, uBlue's images (which are just opinionated takes on Fedora Atomic) have better documentation, but those have only more recently been a thing.

Wow, Niri has been shaping up lovely since the last time I checked on it.

That reminds me; I should probably revisit Wayfire (and the other Wayland-WMs) as well 😅. Thank you for the reminder!