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Fun one:

3+ Editors:

Emacs > Vim > Visual studio code

All three are great, emacs wins out on ethics, magit and org. LSP kinda sucked in emacs until the recent version, where it's been working absolutely great.

Team communication:

Zullip > IRC > Slack > Discord

Zullip wins with threaded convos + the ability to have mailing list mode so you can just use mail like god intended.

Desktop environments:

KDE > Gnome > OS X

I used to not enjoy KDE quite so much, but the recent versions have been extremely pleasant and I quite enjoy that everything can be tweaked and their new tiling solution. While I like Gnome's design ideas, I found the huge menus and long animations to actually bother and distract me.

Browsers:

Firefox > Qutebrowser > Chrome > Safari

But honestly their quite the same, ethics wise I like firefox but chromes dev tools are a bit superior.

Qutebrowser gets an honorary mention because it's UX is quite good if you know vim. The vim integration just works better than just using an extension in Firefox.

Wikis/journal/todo/GTD:

Org > Obsidian > Logseq > Keep > Trello

This is a funny one, on it's own Obsidian wins but Logseq has org support which means that I can use Org+emacs on the computer and then add entries to my journal on my phone as well. Works very well and is extremely good. Keep and trello are great for just throwing things like todos and articles into a list but afterward it's hard to do anything with it. There obsidian works as a better tool.



> LSP kinda sucked in emacs until the recent version, where it's been working absolutely great.

I assume by recent version, you mean Emacs 27.1, and that the improvement was because libjansson shifted JSON parsing from Elisp to C? Or was it something else?




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