I’ve been using Librewolf for quite some time now and am genuinely very happy with it. All the big distros package it, so it’s not hard to install. You can scale up/down how private you want your experience and then see how that breaks sites if that’s a concern for you.

usually, yes. It can be used almost amodally, especially if you use the GUI interface, but there are some pretty important features that just can’t be used without switching modes

Helix looks interesting, but it won’t work for me for some of the same reasons that Vim doesn’t. Again, my calcified brain’s problems and not a problem with those interfaces.

My limited understanding is that Helix’s dev(s?) actually did work on Vim’s codebase and want to put what they learned there to good use.

Zed’s web page seems to come down pretty heavily on the pro-LLM side of things. Do you know if that can be toggled off or not?

Lapce is definitely going on my to-experiment-with list.

DO NOT WANT!

Some of these demand that the terminal you use them with is kitty:

alias ipc='curl icanhazip.com'
# btop is *pretty* bloat!
alias htop='btop'
# I'm kinda proud of this oneliner. It's pointless, but it was fun. It displays a random square image when you run
# neofetch rather than the default ansi art
alias neofetch='filarr=(~/Media/Images/1x1/*.*) && fil=${filarr[$RANDOM % ${#filarr[@]}]} && neofetch --kitty $fil' 
# comics are an important part of my life
alias gd='cd ~ ; gallery-dl'
alias gde="cd ~ ; gallery-dl --chapter-filter 'lang == (\"en\")'"
alias yd='yt-dlp --sub-langs all --embed-subs --embed-chapters --progress --paths home:~/Downloads'
alias subl="/opt/sublime_text/sublime_text"
#exa is currently unmaintained. eza is a maintained fork. It installs a link to exa, but...
alias ls="eza --icons --hyperlink --group-directories-first --git"
alias lsblkv="lsblk -o \"NAME,KNAME,SIZE,TYPE,VENDOR,MODEL,MOUNTPOINT\""
alias icat="kitty +kitten icat"
alias mem="grep -e Dirty: /proc/meminfo; grep -e Writeback: /proc/meminfo"
alias flush="sync"
alias links="links https://www.duckduckgo.com"
alias q="qalc"
alias hf="history 1 | fzf"
# tile the first two kitty windows and resize all kitty windows to 915x945, redirecting any errors to /dev/null
alias tk="xdotool search --class kitty windowmove %1 30 105 windowmove %2 975 105 windowsize %@ 915 945 2>/dev/null"
# only ask for password once on long updates
alias yay="yay --sudoloop"

The only issues I’ve had are a) learning curve using BTRFS and its associated utilities and b) difficulty differentiating snapshots. I learned REAL DAMN QUICK to give those guys descriptive comments like ‘snapshot before 2023-12-16 update’.

system config and system data are in my root subvolume, home directory, dotfiles, and some data that I want to be accessed at SSD speed are in my home subvolume. This all gets timeshift backup/snapshots. The rest of my data is located on spinning platter sata drives, which is backed up regularly using a different method (weekly rsync job that copies to a cold backup drive.)

I’ve been using luks on btrfs for a couple years now with little issue. I’m not using the RAID features of BTRFS though. I’m using it for subvolumes and snapshots.

I personally like Timeshift as my snapshot utility simply because I kinda grok both its GUI and CLI interfaces. It’s saved my bacon a few times over. I like rolling release-type distros, so it handles the occasional bad update gracefully. I’ve heard folks say good things about Snapper, though.