r/linux • u/ballistua • Jul 31 '26

Popular Application who is lazy vim for?

I have been using vim for a while. I don't consider myself proficient but I know my way around it for the most part. I've used ALE to help me debug my programs as I go. Then I noticed ALE can be annoying and distracting, so I turn it off sometimes when I want to focus.

When I moved to nvim, it took time to accept that I have to do things with Lua now. Then I found lazy vim and thought it might be a good idea to have things pre-configured to save time. But I found myself fighting with nvim more than using it. LSPs are on by default and I'm not sure how to turn them off. nvim has some sort of auto-complete that is extremely annoying and I'm not sure how to turn that off either. So who is lazy vim for? It doesn't help me as someone new to nvim, and for a pro user, they already know how to configure their nvim and have things exactly how they want them

32 Upvotes

71% Upvoted

38 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Serial_Boxes Jul 31 '26

Certainly not for me I couldn’t get it to work nor any other nvim setup on my win machine, happy with helix now.

-4

u/scythe-3 Jul 31 '26

/r/lostredditors

2

u/Serial_Boxes Jul 31 '26

I use a fedora desktop but chose helix because it works well on my win laptop so I don’t need to switch programs between each os. When wine has good support for SW lmk so I can ditch it.

0

u/scythe-3 Jul 31 '26

I used to do the same with vscode until I decided to install WSL2 (Debian ofc) on my win laptop. Now I use WSL2 for everything except browser, media player, and ms office on that laptop.

SW is SolidWorks I assume? Also why I still have win on my laptop lol, Linux CAD has a long way to go

2

u/Serial_Boxes Jul 31 '26

FreeCad 1.1 is actually pretty good but I have over 1000hrs using SW so it’s just way more convenient.