nickwitha_k (he/him)

Blast. Someone beat me to the “one of my parents is dead” joke/not-joke.

Fedora Atomic has been working nicely on my personal laptop. Anything funky, I tend to run in a VM w/ libvirt (KVM/QEMU) or a container. Makes it quicker to fix if I break something.

About to get?

It’s also, I find, much more widely supported on a wider variety of hardware and with easier config automation.

That would be reasonable. The people running these things aren’t reasonable. They ignore every established mechanism to communicate a lack of consent to their activity because they don’t respect others’ agency and want everything.

Emacs

It’s a sound choice. I don’t like to use it, personally, because I want to use something that uses same motions and syntax as editors on servers that I don’t own (ex. customers). And, I’m not a fan of Lisp. It’s a great and (self-)extensible text editor/lisp interpreter, though.