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Its nice read. We need more of comparative posts by user familiar with both nix and guix.
We see bias with most discussions.
Only cons with Guix I see is, lack of infrastructure and less volunteers to work on guix eco-system. If its solved, I can imagine guix can improve exponentially.
Hey, just heads up reminding. Do try to post it on reddit. I will try to give link in mastodon.
Hi dskhatri
Do you use reddit? If so please do post it in r/emacs and r/orgmode The community will be thrilled to know this feat. Really amazing work!
This is nice. You can spread the word to r/bangalore and related subs. But sure small communities sound like more fun than a big one.
Are many of them programmers/techie or academicians?
Tbh for me both seems the same. I can ignore both digital notifications and open book/paper lying there to reminder me of a task. Its the mental state of person to commit for getting things done. Digital method gives lot of space for organizing tho.
Why not embrace searxng^1. But sure I know brave and other would rate limit for it. What would be the difference from duckduckgo lite?
FYI, the author is John Wiegley. He is popularly known for Emacs use-package and ledger-cli
What are Emacs really good at?
Emacs is the most open software you will see. I'd say it has good community, extension (packages) and legacy of staying maintained. You can craft emacs as you want, more than an editor. You can interface with various tools. Heck the main USP you would realize is the god-tier documentation on everything and discovering tiny features.
Since you mentioned only note-taking, I'd say in that area, emacs excels. But note that note-taking system is not everything, emacs will allow you to craft and build workflow as you require.
Where do they shine compared to Obsidian?
emacs is: Editor + Note taking + Code editor + Integrate with tools ++ Extend more
Where are they worse?
You might feel like packages or community is not that fast paced compared to other popular, trendy tools.
Emacs is a investment and journey, its not so I know emacs, its like I grow with emacs. You need lot of time to learn and understand to grasp it.
You can try two routes, 1. Replicate same workflow as obsidian in emacs, or 2. use emacs from scratch (minimal config) and understand the essence of it to build your own workflow.