As someone who follows DHH on Twitter, I’ve seen a lot of posts around his switching to Linux as his daily driver. I’ve had Linux on my personal machine for a few years now, but never put a huge amount of effort into it since it’s not my “work” computer. Still, I try to poke around with some code when I can, so I do want to have it set up for development on personal projects. I’ve always had (at least some) co-workers who would code in Vim/Tmux exclusively (and swear by it), but it’s never been for me. I used Eclipse in college, bounced around a lot between VS Code and the IntelliJ community edition, briefly dabbled in Atom, and I even used regular vim (OK, gvim) for a bit…after I stumbled across a setting to use regular Windows keyboard shortcuts1. No editor ever really stuck as something I particularly liked using, but I could at least get VS Code (for front-end work) and then IntelliJ (for Java) “good enough” but that was it. So I decided to give Neovim a try, since the Vim people I worked with always seemed passionate about how they liked their editor and because..why not? This time, I decided to do it properly, with the real Vim keybindings, not replacing with Windows versions. After a few weeks, I see why Vim people are the way they are – this just feels like a better way of doing things.
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