Mostly the fact i was trying to make Neovim into a GUI Editor, which it just isn’t. There are things throughout the day where a mouse is usefull. I want Variable Pitch fonts in notes and I wanted more flexibility when it came to things like the modeline. Finally, the fact that i can write my own functions to set stuff up is pretty great. With Neovim you can do a lot with lua, but it’s mostly an API and not so much you programming the editor. Hard to explain.

Apart from that, the potential ceiling for emacs is higher (i think). It can do a LOT more than neovim does. I’m not using much of it at the moment, but plan to in the future.

And i didn’t exactly “switch”. I still have my neovim config around for work in the terminal and for “quick edits”.

After i stopped trying to make a neovim Clone, i’m starting to enjoy emacs for what it is and can be. Still a LONG ways of “done”, but i’m finally starting to be happy with my config.

Does anyone know the current state of VR Gaming in Linux?

Don’t bother.

I heard there have been some improvements with wayland and steam-vr 2, but that’s dependend on the DE, your Setup, new drivers etc. Overall, my Valve Index either shows image but no sound, or sound but no image. Beat Saber launched, SPT didn’t, Alyx did once, but never after that.

I’d STRONGLY recommend keeping a Windows partition around for VR Gaming.

Imho:

• AMD or Nvidia isn’t a big difference atm. Yes, AMD drivers are Open Source, but in day-to-day use on a major distro with one of the popular Desktops, you won’t notice much difference
• Ubuntu over PopOS at the moment. PopOS is pretty old because they are focusing on their Cosmic DE. For Gaming, an LTS release isn’t ideal. Once Pop Updates to a more recent Debian base, it should be fine though.
• Dual Boot, if you need your games to work. With Patch 13.23 League wasn’t playable. Might be fixed now, but i had to reinstall Windows temporarily as you couldn’t join games. Champ select and queue worked fine, leading to joining a game you couldn’t connect to. Not great. And that’s with Riot being pretty chill with Linux gamers. They don’t specifically test Linux, but are willing to work with us on fixes. Other Devs can be pretty Linux hostile and the experience can be worse.

TLDR: Issues are rare but happen. They mostly get fixed really quickly. BUT, if your evening are spend playing Normals with friends or you “need” your games to work, keep a Windows install on hand. I’d still encourage going with Linux as your main rig, but have a backup plan. Or you might have to wait a couple of days after major Updates.

Burly looks nice. But in my first use i ran into this bug https://github.com/alphapapa/burly.el/issues/28 So, that’s not usable for me, sadly.

Yeah, I’ve started to notice the same for me. I use neovim and emacs at work. Many files I open are now rainbow puke. I’m sure some people find it useful. I personally use an lsp and treesitter mostly for automatic indentation.

I’m thinking about making a color scheme which uses one color besides the main foreground and uses font weight and slant for highlighting in 90% of cases, limiting color to spare, relevant places. I’m tired of every string, number etc. being colorized. Just looks cluttered imho.

I’ll be honest: In your situation i’d dual-boot windows and Linux. I’ve been with linux for 20 years now, and work on Linux as a job all day. And even my Gaming rig is running windows 11.

The way i see it:

• If you want to GAME on linux, you might struggle.
• If you want to game on LINUX, you can have a great time.

Point is, if you are set on Linux and want to Game on it, there’s a lot that works great. Most stuff is running out of the box, drivers a rarely an issue and with Wayland displays are a lot less bothersome.

But if you want to primarily Game and think Linux might give you a Resource advantage, you might be having a bad time. Multiplayer Games are iffy, AAA Games near release can be hit or miss, GPU and Display handling, while better, is still behind in Linux. And that’s talking about the cutting edge with KDE on wayland.

So, ask yourself what your primary goal is. If Gaming is the goal, than use the best tool for that, which is windows at the moment. But if your goal is to have a good time on Linux, there’s TONS of fun to be head with games that run without any fiddeling. You might need to compromise on the games you play here and there, but that’s still miles better than mac OS.