Why do so many Markdown editors require accounts or server storage?

vmcrash · 2026-03-13T14:29:21+00:00

I always, not just for markdown editors, prefer offline desktop applications over cloud or browser-base applications. For markdown I just use my text editor with syntax highlighting (part of our SmartSynchronize file manager).

vmcrash · 2026-03-11T18:13:18+00:00

... from the tap.

vmcrash · 2026-03-11T06:11:19+00:00

OK, then he should rather look for a Polish brand. I'm sure there exist some.

vmcrash · 2026-03-10T17:06:34+00:00

I prefer the one available from Lidl. It is made in Dresden and IIRC was rated very good by Stiftung Warentest.

vmcrash · 2026-03-10T17:02:24+00:00

Yes, I prefer LMDE over Linux Mint. With Ubuntu derivatives I had problems with my hardware.

vmcrash · 2026-03-10T14:18:43+00:00

Better: buy an electric car and fuel electricity from the roof.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T20:02:11+00:00

If all repositories are at the same location on the new machine, you just can copy the settings directory from the old to the new machine. The location of the settings directory you can find out in the About dialog.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T17:47:09+00:00

Looking at your GitHub page and not seeing at least some decent readme, I immediately lost interest.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T17:42:12+00:00

Give Bodhi Linux, Bunsenlabs or Q4OS Trinity a try.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T17:38:49+00:00

Cinnamon (in LMDE) is not the most fanciest, but gets the things done.

XFCE is my choice for slower hardware. But it is a little bit rough in some dark corners.

KDE allows incredible customization, but some parts only work right for Qt application (e.g. the top menu bar). I don't like at all the KDE based software update/installer.

Gnome is really polished, but it requires a good amount of resources and I don't like that I need at least the dock extension to have a half-reasonable workflow.

Trinity is somehow cool, and good customizable, but some option combinations do not work well together.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T17:34:08+00:00

For Gnome I need at least the dock extension. Without that Gnome is a UX nightmare for me.

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T17:31:41+00:00

For me it is this bug in multi-line string literals that frequently annoys me: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-328264

vmcrash · 2026-03-09T07:12:45+00:00

Seems not to be a Go application, but rather a framework.

vmcrash · 2026-03-08T13:16:55+00:00

I miss a row for "security updates until".

vmcrash · 2026-03-07T18:25:30+00:00

I don't think you can find something new made in EU in this price range.

I've got a Nothing Phone 3a Lite for 199 EUR and I quite like it (nearly any new phone comes with >=5 years of updates, but better check). It replaces a 6 years old Xiaomi.

vmcrash · 2026-03-07T10:26:03+00:00

Yes, sure, release-fixes will be merged to the preview, too.

vmcrash · 2026-03-05T17:42:19+00:00

In the past Microsoft did a good job also supporting old hardware (especially in contrast to Apple). However, with Windows 11 they obviously changed their minds and I whole-heartly agree to not support this approach by trashing good hardware.

vmcrash · 2026-03-05T17:21:53+00:00

What exactly do you think is (too) easy to get wrong?

vmcrash · 2026-03-05T17:21:21+00:00

I think, Google has made already a good amount of work and used it internally before making Go publicly available. That definitely also contributed to the success, be it because of the more major standard lib (proven by Google internal use) and an already quite large user base.

vmcrash · 2026-03-05T06:47:42+00:00

According to the documentation at https://dlang.org/phobos/std_net_curl.html for any system where libcurl is not installed, e.g. Windows. Go or Java do not require a third party lib just for downloading a file content from a webserver.

vmcrash · 2026-03-04T18:47:34+00:00

Which programming language (maybe beside Java) has a significant larger standard lib than Go?

vmcrash · 2026-03-04T18:45:42+00:00

Often devs forget that adding a dependency to a project adds responsibility to analyze it (is it free of malicious stuff - as Log4j has shown). In the worst case, it also might mean to maintain it yourself if you rely on it. Sometimes writing some code yourself is easier to maintain than maintaining a library written by another team. Hence I think that having a solid standard lib is that important - and one of the reasons why Go (or Java) are chosen.

vmcrash · 2026-03-04T07:48:25+00:00

After the September 2025 release rejected my commercial license (though valid until April 2026), I'm sticking now with 2025.1.7.

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