Seems decent. Presumably has the Windows shortcut scheme, seems theme-able, though that it has sessions and tabs makes it a bit too bloated to really be the same as Notepad.

I used both Notepad and Notepad++ on Windows, then changed to Linux Mint and used the GNOME text editor which was the perfect middle-ground. Then I changed to KDE and I got hit with the abomination that is Kate.

You open it you’re greeted with a list of options instead of a blank file ready to use. When you open it again you’ll have 10 open tabs from previous sessions. On the left side you get multiple buttons with coding features … and I think most KDE users aren’t programmers. At the top there are dropdown menus with and most of the hundreds of options there are irrelevant to the non-programmer.

It’s much better to leave these kinds of programming-centric features out of the default text editor. The programmers know how to install something better.

I’m not saying Kate shouldn’t exist, nor that it shouldn’t be installed by default. It just shouldn’t be the default.

It’s not bloated due to speed, but complexity. It has too many features to learn and things like session restore and multiple tabs means interacting with it requires more clicks or keyboard shortcuts. It’s not a good substitute for Notepad or GNOME Text Editor.

OpenSUSE seems to not accept donations from ordinary users, which suggests their target is more the server side. I think a daily driver distro should probably be a daily driver distro and not a server distro.

Kate is too bloated to fill the role of Notepad. Kwrite is lighter but like Kate all the shortcuts are different from Notepad and the Gnome Text Editor. Took me three attempts to get the shortcuts right, first because I didn’t save them correctly and second because I missed one of the way too many things you can configure.

Kate and Kwrite make the OOTB experience with KDE bad for new users from anywhere else.

Now we need NotepadKwrite.

I’m 25 and still sorting out the books I care to read. I’m overwhelmed with choice, particularly interesting works in genres that I don’t find much joy in.

I tried OpenSUSE and I ran into various issues installing software. Plus the immutable variant of OpenSUSE is an external project IIRC.

Problem is that I don’t know the format and I couldn’t find any documentation on the matter.

You can’t exactly type “man nano /etc/fstab” into the console.

But they’re deleting my social media.

Don’t “upgrade” to Kubuntu. I’m on it and want to upgrade away because Ubuntu. Fedora Kinoite is probably the best bet if you want KDE for a tech novice.

KDE is really annoying though. Kate is a horrible text editor if you’re not a programmer, and Kwrite has weird default shortcuts without any preconfigured “Gnome/Windows style” available. The Dolphin File Explorer doesn’t allow you to sort and group by different things. And Kparted isn’t as easy to use as Gnome Disk Utility. Still, I like how KDE had better themes than Cinnamon and how it actually lets me move programs to different categories in the start menu.

A lot of debate has been had about whether the CEO is trustworthy, but I guess if they’re not doing end to end encryption then there’s no point.

That’s because the feature is being abused by others.

What did clicking on the cloudflare button actually do? As far as I know just clicking on a link shouldn’t give you malware.

Clicking on things that look legit is a critical part of interaction with computers. Programs should not be installed unintentionally, so first and foremost Office Macros should not be enabled by default (and eventually Microsoft did disable them).

Recently I think the main avenue for malware is to send a PDF with a fake popup for an update, that links to a phishing site and prompts you to download an exe with malware. That kind of thing is a harder issue to solve, but at the very least an OS should probably not let that program update your BIOS.

He said that Republicans were more responsive on privacy than the Democrats, there’s nothing weird about that. Though it is pretty clear that the Republicans were responsive for all the wrong reasons.

Ah, I’m on KDE though.

I use KDE and it keeps asking me for a password to mount one of my partitions. I tried to edit it using nano but couldn’t find any documentation about how etc/fstab even works so I was hoping for a way to do it with the CLI.

It’s okay, I’m Australian, my government’s got me covered.