Well, bundling a full browser and using a mature and popular runtime are very different things in my book.

Thank you for clarifying that distinction for me!

But yeah, if you want an open source tool, JetBrains is not the tool to use.

Thank you for confirming it for me! Regardless, your recommendation has been much appreciated!

Thank you for mentioning Sublime Text! It seems to be a very competent text editor. However, unfortunately, I don’t like how it is not open source.

I think my needs for a text editor for making notes and/or writing texts are mostly fulfilled between Emacs and Kate. At least…, for my untrained eyes. Do you think Sublime Text offers merit beyond (either of) these to be considered instead?

Sorry for the late response.

I’ve tested most of what has been suggested and I can attest that Kate is indeed very good. Thanks for mentioning your endorsement as well!

However, while I really like Geany aesthetically, I wasn’t able to fold Markdown headings with it. Uhmm…, would you happen to know if this is actually featured?

Thank you so much! The instructions will be very helpful whenever I test out Zed later today or early tomorrow.

Yeah it seems folding with markdown isn’t as ubiquitous as I’d like. I’ve tested a couple text editors since yesterday and only Kate (and (by extension) KDevelop) did a decent job at supporting folding with markdown.

Thank you for mentioning this! Do you happen to know what distinguishes this from Notepad Next?

Scite can do it.

Noted. Thank you!

Notepad++ probably too but I don’t know if it’s available on Linux.

FWIW, someone else pointed out the existence of Notepad Next. Which IIUC is pretty much an open-source and cross-platform reimplementation.

I just remember it being the text editor to use on Windows.

Frankly, I never used it when I was using Windows 😅. I suppose I was (somehow) conditioned at the time to use whatever M$ Office offered instead 😜.

JetBrains IDEs

I have used them in the past. They’re definitely pretty cool and do their job well. Unfortunately, unless I’m wrong, most of their offerings^[1] are not open source. I believe this also applies to Fleet.

My apologies for not making it clear in the post, but I do prefer open source whenever I can afford it.

Finally, there’s a lot not to like about electron, but I feel like JetBrains’ use of JVMs isn’t a lot better.

Regardless, I will note it down as I intend to test them all out anyways :P .

Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong in any of the above. Thank you!

Interesting. I will look into this. Thank you!

The folding in Kate isn’t bound to a keyboard shortcut by default, but you can bind the katepart > Toggle current node in settings > configure keyboard shortcuts. It’s also available via mouse on the left side.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Ah okay, my apologies for not being clear enough!

While emacs and (neo)vim definitely fit the bill of CLI/TUI editors, I am open to GUI editors.

Thank you for allowing me to clarify myself!

Thank you for mentioning Kate! The GNOME-fanboy inside of me would probs like to resist it, but sometimes KDE’s offering is strictly better^[1] at least IMO*. I’ll look into it and see if it satisfies my needs.

It’s a GUI and not a TUI though. Not sure if that was a requirement as well

That wasn’t a requirement. Regardless, thank you for the heads up!

Apologies for not being clear, and thank you for probing me to answer the right questions:

• I’m not married to Markdown or any other markup language, but it is true that Markdown makes up my primary use case.
• Though, with emacs installed, I’ve also dabbled into org-mode. And while I’ve been liking it so far, I understand that it’s mostly an emacs thing.
• I suppose my current needs would mostly be fulfilled with Markdown + LaTeX.

Here’s Eclipse, for example.

Thank you for mentioning Eclipse! Will look into it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors

This has a “text folding” and “code folding” column.

Wow, that’s pretty neat! Very much appreciated!

Sorry, I don’t understand. It seems others have already recommended text editors that probably fit the bill.

Perhaps my post was unclear or causing confusion? If so, please allow me to correct myself.

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

Mind elaborating?

And if GNOME is considered “not very customisable” in the linux world, KDE, Cinnamon, etc. must be even more customisable

It’s more like GNOME doesn’t come with a lot of customization options OOTB. You need extra tools -be it Tweaks, Extension Manager or the somewhat archaic Dconf Editor- to unleash the plethora of customization options in a palpable manner.

On the upside, GNOME’s extensions do allow for extensive customization with ‘ease’. Heck, this often goes beyond what other DEs are capable of (see e.g. PaperWM^[1] or Material Shell^[2]).

I was under the impression Arch was more for “hardcore” users, is that an outdated mindset (or was it ever true)?

It’s more nuanced than that.

Arch Linux, the distro Garuda Linux is derived from, is definitely not a distro that holds your hand like e.g. Linux Mint does. It (somewhat) demands you to read extensively through its excellent^[1] ArchWiki.

However, Garuda and other derivatives^[2] are opinionated takes on Arch that try to fulfill a specific goal that its respective maintainers have in mind. This can range from using Arch Linux as a base for delivering:

• a scrutinizingly optimized distro that at (the very) least inches out every other distro in performance (i.e. CachyOS)
• a distro that functions as a glorified installer^[3] for Arch. But with that, remains very close in spirit to what Arch is all about (i.e. EndeavourOS)
• a ready-to-go gaming distro (i.e. Garuda Linux)
• (and everything in between and beyond…)

(Note that the oversimplified descriptions found above don’t quite do justice to the enormous effort that is put into these projects. Furthermore, it has to be mentioned that each of these distros proud themselves on the amazing communities they’ve built.)

Finally, it goes without saying that having an Arch base continues to pose a (potential) maintenance burden^[4] with the constant stream of updates. While some of the above distros include some of the available protections by default, none claim to provide a silver bullet^[5]. Thankfully, problems ‘should’ only act up every once in a while. And (almost surely) deflecting them with a working snapshot provides an evergreen magical experience.

So, to conclude, Arch Linux as a distro definitely is more demanding than e.g. Linux Mint. However, the derivatives mentioned above definitely bridge the gap to a remarkable extent. So much so, perhaps, that you might not even notice much of a difference (besides the constant stream of updates).

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

Penguins-eggs to the rescue.