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Yeah, I got the understanding from another comment on here. I will put it in my list to research.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I never distro-hopped much, but still got to try Ubuntu a few times while always using Debian Testing. After a point, I had all the things I needed on Debian Stable and the few that I needed, I learnt how to use backports or makedeb etc. Kubuntu is pretty great. My own Debian journey was probably like Lubuntu > Mint > Debian Testing for a long time > Debian Stable rest of the life. If it works for you Kubuntu is still great. No need to switch to Debian unless there is a strong reason.

As for flatpak and snap, I have my reservations. I go out of my way to avoid them and find either packaged version or try the source install. However, I am not completely averse to them. I still think if someday I need flatpak only software in my workflow, I would have no qualms to use it.

Oh, that is a relief, I will have to check that out sometime. Thank you!

Haha yeah! :)

Thank you and I wish you a similar or better success soon. Yes, I do wish to share the writings on this here slow and steadily.

True, I did this with my notes-from-phone sync directory. It is amazing that way.

You had me at LSP support :)

This is a second recommendation in this post, so I will have to try it sooner than Sublime. Firing up my apt...

I always loved how super fast it was. I did use it for a year or so some years back. But I will try it out again in a while.

Yes, that is exactly what it was. A way to link some phone stuff like SMS, some apps' notifications to Linux workstation. I have read about KDE connect. I am on a plain xorg + tiling wm setup and looking for solutions similar to KDE Connect but without need for KDE.

As mentioned in my potential sub-projects I will shortly attempt an implementation a 3-2-1 backup strategy. I have Syncthing in mind to do the syncing to one of more of OneDrive / BackBlaze / Borg backup services etc. I don't have all the final details yet on the services and pieces needed yet.

Yes, thanks for the recommendation. I heard about Kate but have actually yet to try it out.

Agree on all counts about Notepad++ "oldness"

• slower when we have 100 files open
• clunky
• rigid
• old GUI paradigms ( settings modal, find modal etc)
• inflexible and less customizable UI chrome area

Few things I like about Notepad++ enough to actually keep on using it on work workstations:

• Plugins ecosystem. I am too entrenched into it.
  • PoormansSqlFormatter
  • Tidy2
  • JSTool
  • XML Tools
  • ComparePlus
  • TextFx2
• great built-in editing operations Edit > EOL
• great bookmarking operations
• Very active development
• Way faster than VS Code for text manipulation tasks

Geany with Plugins with is great but misses out on the above stuff

Sublime is the only one and I could use it for a serious amount of time. I only went back because I could not often get it installed in some enterprises.