I’m a “serious professional” who has been developing for over 20 years and I’ve generally prefer a text editor the IDEs that I’ve had to use at work. I find that most IDEs are slow resource hogs that don’t give me features that I actually care about over a fast text editor.

The singular exception was Cider when I was at Google. It was fantastic at wrangling their massive monorepo, and integration with their code review and ticket system was nice. Somehow it was snappy and reliable even though it ran in Chrome.

Nowadays I’ve switched to Helix and use LSPs for the languages I use most. For what it’s worth, those are C, C++, Rust and Python. Mostly Rust and Python now.

I spent years using Notepad++ as my professional editor. We were a Windows shop and all of the IDEs available were much slower and buggier. It’s a surprisingly decent introduction to the idea of what a good text editor can be.

gdb works great without an IDE, and many text editors have autocomplete.

There are dozens of us!

May I recommend Helix? It’s a modal editor like vim, but has a better out of the box experience, better discoverability for commands, and uses an easier to understand select->command syntax.

How do you not? A text editor and a browser are the two programs that I use the most, both for work and at home. And while most browsers have pretty similar UXs nowadays, the different editors are vastly different. Helix, EMacs, vim, StyledEdit, Notepad++, Kate, etc all have radically different approaches to basically everything.

I would also add that the presidents party almost always loses votes in the midterms. This is particularly true for republicans since 2016 because a lot of trump’s supporters only care about him and won’t bother to fill out a ballot without him on it.

Shazam was pretty enjoyable. It reminds me of good movies back when movies were allowed to be merely good instead of either amazing or terrible.

I can’t get the Windows based firmware updaters for my motorcycle helmet Bluetooth headset and joystick fully running under Wine/Lutris/Whatever. They both use USB and just will not connect.

Also, once a quarter I have to use an archaic Excel sheet that is heavily dependent on some VB Script. This file absolutely will not open correctly in anything other than a locally installed version of Excel because the script needs a real local printer and Open/Libre/Whatever cannot handle the insanity of the VB Script. I have a Windows VM just for this one thing.

The other thing to do would be to see what is using so much memory. You can use

htop 

And sort by memory use.

Have you ran a memory check? Linux and Windows use memory layouts pretty differently so you may have avoided the bad bits before that are now an issue. https://memtest.org/

When I was a kid I bought an Atari with the cartridge holder stand for it and a ton of games for $5. ET was fucking awful, but there were a few gems in the collection.

I think that really depends on your perspective. I’ve spent most of my career in C or a minimal subset of C++ for embedded systems. For me, even no_std rust has a rather rich set of features.

Oh, of course. Thanks!

I’m out of the loop. What?

Nice

I drove a truck with four pedals in high school. Leftmost was the parking brake.

Bookshelves! I’m building a floor to ceiling bookshelf with rolling ladder.

I remember my copy had Buddy Holly by Weezer, and I think something called Good Times. What was the third?

Boycott: Good news! There are a lot of those happening, but it hasn’t shifted things enough yet.

Storm the capital: To what end? Seriously, assuming a large enough group of people took over the capital building or White House, what next? Trump would be evacuated elsewhere and still have full control of the military which could easily put down the crowd.

Revolt: What would this entail? Yes, if a critical mass of Americans organized to get Trump and rewrite the constitution then maybe we could get somewhere but that large of a critical mass doesn’t exist yet. Remember, that would be a fight against about 1/3 of the US population plus the military.

Sanction: The US is the largest economy in the world and is in control of the most important currency. It’s impossible to sanction the US until both of those change.

Impeach and Remove: Requires a majority of representatives and 2/3 majority of senators. You need to convince a lot of republicans to make that happen.

Fight dirty: What does that mean, exactly?