HayadSont

UPDATE: For posterity's sake, I'd like to reflect on the last couple of days.

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to the discussion! Were it not for your recommendations/suggestions/endorsements, then I might not have found a valid alternative.

Secondly, I've taken every single recommendation pretty seriously. As such, I've either installed them to see for myself if I was able to reproduce the functionality found in the gif found above. Or, didn't install them to begin with due to the suggested installation methods not passing through my (rather) strict policy on software. Regardless, in the end, I've only found two pieces of software that satisfied the bill: Kate and KDevelop.

KDevelop is pretty cool, but is more of an IDE rather than a text editor. As such, I've landed on Kate.

But, perhaps more than anything, I've come to really appreciate Emacs (and Neovim). And, perhaps more than ever, I feel ready to take them on 💪. Wish me luck 😊.

UPDATE: For posterity's sake, I'd like to reflect on the last couple of days.

First of all, I'd like to thank everyone that has contributed to the discussion! Were it not for your recommendations/suggestions/endorsements, then I might not have found a valid alternative.

Secondly, I've taken every single recommendation pretty seriously. As such, I've either installed them to see for myself if I was able to reproduce the functionality found in the gif found above. Or, didn't install them to begin with due to the suggested installation methods not passing through my (rather) strict policy on software. Regardless, in the end, I've only found two pieces of software that satisfied the bill: Kate and KDevelop.

KDevelop is pretty cool, but is more of an IDE rather than a text editor. As such, I've landed on Kate.

But, perhaps more than anything, I've come to really appreciate Emacs (and Neovim). And, perhaps more than ever, I feel ready to take them on 💪. Wish me luck 😊.

Thank you so much for this! Hopefully I'm not bothering you with this*.

Did you scale the source with ffmpeg?

I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think I did. The invoked command was the following:

❯ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.gif

Do you have a visual pattern in your console background?

I don't think I do. It doesn't look like it at least. To be clear, even on my laptop I notice the visual pattern visible in the gif. But that's totally absent when I'm working within Emacs. Or at least, it looks as if it's just a singular solid color.

The second best to render a small enough size that it does not get resized in the browser.

Hmm..., makes sense. Not a huge fan, though 😅. Hopefully I can solve it through other means instead.

I assume you scaled it up

Yup. For the sake of readability*. But the upscaling (or rather zooming in*) was done natively within Emacs.

Alright, so I went to do some digging and the pattern only starts to show up in the gif. Perhaps as a result of the smaller color palette*. Regardless, I tried to see if it is solved by simply generating a 'better' palette and using it as a filter of sorts. Furthermore, in case that wasn't enough, I also tried playing with different dither algorithms:

Does any one of the above gifs do better?

And again as I've said before I don't wanna distro hop anymore, this isn't my first distro

Ah okay, somehow that went over my head. Apologies*. Thanks for clarifying, though!

so am focused on the long term and reliability of the thing.

it's up to date but stable, and it's basically taken the place that Ubuntu originally held as a jack of all trades of sorts

Noted. Thanks (again) for clarifying!

Ubuntu has been extremely hit or miss for me in regards to stability and updates (literally the system at one point nearly bricked itself when trying to upgrade and am now stuck on a specific Ubuntu version forever because of it, the updating thing seems completely borked for me, can't upgrade it without wiping the whole thing and this isn't the first or last time anything Ubuntu based has done this to me before, updating it is very dreadful for me because it's a complete gamble), and as far as I know Fedora seems to be a lot more stable and polished on that front, haven't heard anything majorly bad about it.

Pff.., there's a lot to unpack here. Heck, I could dedicate a whole comment just on this. Unsure if you'd be interested, though 😅. Regardless, the gist would be that uncompromised stability across updates on Linux has historically been (and mostly remains to be) a hard problem to solve. This isn't because the Linux ecosystem is incompetent, instead the onus is on the freedom we enjoy on this platform and the consequences that very freedom entails.

Anyhow, I do agree that Fedora (or at least some variant of it) does better than Ubuntu in this regard. There are high-profile Ubuntu veterans that have since migrated to 'Fedora' for stability and they've been very much enjoying themselves with the improved experience.

what legal stuff would be concerning if I may ask? Heard at one point they were gonna get rid of hardware acceleration or something because of legalities or whatever?? But then changed their minds? Idk, stuff like that worries me a bit haha.

Please feel absolutely free to ask fam. At least :P , as long as you can bear my ramblings 😂.

So..., like a lot of other^[I believe at least Debian and openSUSE suffer from this as well.] independent distros, Fedora is not able to ship with everything the end user might require for smooth onboarding. Instead, for hardware acceleration and more, the end user is responsible to install it themselves if they desire full functionality. This shouldn't be too much of a deal; some might just regard it as part of the first installation process. However, sometimes, Fedora (and the aforementioned distros) are legally bound to cease support of existing functionality. That's where things get ugly 😅; see this thread. Note that this isn't lost forever as changes like these just introduce more elements/bullets/articles to RPM Fusion's Howto's. Though, it goes without saying that Ubuntu handles this a lot more gracefully.

Thankfully, there are downstream projects of Fedora that are not -or, rather, don't seem to be- legally bound to the same extent. As such, onboarding is handled better. Heck, some even come with exceptional system management promises (on which they deliver), that ensure your system continues to function as desired. I can share some of my first-hand experiences with these: on multiple occasions I didn't experience any breakage or whatsoever from the supposed loss of functionality that other users were affected by. Why? Because the maintainers of the downstream project I run on my system handled it without requiring any input from me. It genuinely feels like dark sorcery at times :P .

You can pretty easily export Org mode files to markdown (and LaTeX)!

Oh wow, thank you for offering me this learning experience!

There may be a setting you need to turn on (I forget and I’m not at my PC), but it works well and is very easy to use.

I'm on Doom Emacs, so perhaps this is enabled by default. But, at least for me, it was as easy as pressing SPC m e. This opens up the export menu. From there; one may select LaTeX, Markdown or any of the many other options to export to. The fuzzy search from M-x also allowed me to find it by typing out the functionality I was seeking.

Granted, I am not entirely content on how Emacs handled the export to Markdown. But I wouldn't bat an eye if Emacs enables me to configure it exactly as I'd want to.

Also, I haven’t really done it, but from what I understand you can also setup emacs to be a really good LaTeX editor.

Again, I wouldn't be surprised. It seems Emacs lends itself extremely well to whatever you throw at it 😂. No doubt; this is dndgame-material for sure*.

So do I, btw. 😜

Yup, Doom Emacs is definitely pretty lit. If it wasn't clear already, the gif in the post has been made with it.

FWIW, I actually started using Emacs through Spacemacs. And, honestly, I don't know if either one of the two has technical merit over the other. However, at some point, when I was working with (slightly) larger files, I just clearly started to notice input lag. Mind you, my laptop is starting to show his age, but input lag isn't something I was used to experience otherwise. As such, out of frustration, I pivoted to Doom and the rest has been history 😅.

Oh lol 😜 😂. Regardless, your input has been much appreciated! Thank you 😊!

No problem, fam.

I have tried to reproduce it in Geany, but have failed so far 😅. Perhaps it's on me, but I'm (at least) inclined to look elsewhere until this has been resolved. Hopefully it's on me and someone can point me in the right direction.

Anyhow, thank you anyways!

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!

Very interesting. I suppose that's an artifact of the ffmpeg hacking used to convert the screencast to a gif. Would you happen to know what I could do to prevent that from happening in the future?

Btw, FWIW, I seem to only notice this myself when I'm on the phone. Does the picture above also happen to be from your phone?

I've also heard great things about it. Thanks for your endorsement! Unfortunately, correctly installing Zed on my distro might be more trouble than worth it at the moment. Hopefully the issue(s) will be resolved (very) soon. I would love to test it out and see it for myself.