My bad. Thank you for clarifying!

Article by a Red Hat engineer that also makes a ton of contributions to FOSS in their free time: Don't change your login shell, use a modern terminal emulator

Couldn't agree more.

Btw, I would like to take this chance to thank you and @winety@lemmy.zip for the civil, respectful, engaging and informative conversation you were having elsewhere!

Thanks a lot for putting in the work! Uhmm..., how has testing been? Were you able to pull this off with Markdown?

I've also heard great things about it. Thanks for your endorsement! Unfortunately, correctly installing Zed on my distro might be more trouble than worth it at the moment. Hopefully the issue(s) will be resolved (very) soon. I would love to test it out and see it for myself.

By admission of my fellow Lemmy-users, I've gone and tried out many text editors over the course of the past few days. Unfortunately, I didn't like the installation options for Zed in my current distro of choice (i.e. Fedora):

• its flatpak is unverified
• not found in Fedora's own repos

It is found within Terra's repos. However, users report that -at least for Zed- some of the installed packages from Fedora's own repo are replaced by Terra's. This interaction can be prevented by giving preference for Fedora's own packages, but it seems like a can of worms I'm not very interested to engage with at the moment. Hopefully this situation will be resolved rather sooner than later.

Anyhow, have you got the chance to work with Emacs and/or Kate over the years? If so, could you chime in and give your thoughts on how Zed fares in comparison? Please note that I'm (mostly) asking within the confines of a relatively simple text editor used to take notes with.

Hopefully it will receive it soon*; my Helix-installation has been collecting dust ever since the folding-workflow has been growing on me.

Perhaps it was just placebo, but my system always felt snappier (even if momentarily) right after a reset. As such, it would slowly but surely reach a proverbial boiling point where starting fresh was the only thing that truly salvaged it for me. So yeah, while not exactly easy, it felt so gratifying that I couldn't do anything but.

I had never heard of the impermanence module, that seems really cool !

It's pretty great, isn't it? And honestly, hearing folks get excited about it definitely nudges me closer to finally diving in this summer. Wish me luck!

If with "it" you refer to Ventoy, then I'd like to inform you that they've been doing a good job at maintaining it. They've even had multiple releases^[Those being 1.0.98, 1.0.99, 1.1.00, 1.1.01, 1.1.02, 1.1.03, 1.1.04 and 1.1.05. The most recent of these was released at the 24th of February of this year.] since the (original) issue was opened.

Sorry, I think there's a misunderstanding.

First of all, thank you for clarifying what you meant. I'm not native, so I haven't seen "rummage" being used within that context. And while a LLM did (at least an attempt to) provide its meaning, it didn't make sense... by which we have arrived at the misunderstanding.

Since it is read-only

Yes, for Fedora Atomic, (most of) /usr is read-only. Perhaps this also applies to some other folders of /, however this doesn't apply to /etc as it's not read-only; therefore, you can actually change its content. At best, you'd have to go sudo (or fill the credentials through polkit's window); but that's all. This part isn't different from how it's over on (traditional) Fedora. Compared to its non-Atomic variant, however, we do find the following changes regarding /etc:

• The changes you apply to /etc are being kept track of. You can access these through ostree admin config-diff.
• And, related to the previous, a pristine copy of /etc is kept at /usr/etc. And, that one, is actually read-only.

So..., the following step, i.e.

you always have to copy a config file into your home/user/.config/... before you can edit it.

Isn't required or anything. Heck, it's the first time (after three years of Fedora Atomic) that I've seen something like that being mentioned within this context.

The expectation that package maintainers should backport security patches rather than simply updating to the latest upstream version is a rather peculiar quirk.

Can't agree more.

FWIW, I actually do understand the difference 😅.

As the term "immutable distro" has -unfortunately- become a misnomer, I went with the (more) descriptive "atomic distro" instead. At least it rings better than names like "distro with transactional updates", "distro with (some degree of) managed state" or -heck- "distro with anti-hysteresis properties" 😜.

Granted, perhaps the notion (and/or intention) to lump the likes of NixOS together with Endless OS under one oversimplified umbrella term isn't being helpful either. But I digress...

Though, I find solace in the fact that (at least within these discussions) Gentoo is regarded as a traditional distro 🤣.

Or..., put more formally: Creating and maintaining precise terminology for the diverse Linux ecosystem is incredibly challenging. While nerds like myself would enjoy the classification work, the effort required to keep terms accurate and widely understood in this ever-evolving landscape is no joke 😭.

Anyhow, I might as well hijack the remainder of this comment to thank you and everyone else that made contributions to this discussion. Much appreciated!