About 6 months since I’ve switched away from vscode. To make Helix worth it you also need to use software that compliments it.

I work in DevOps, so I don’t do a ton of programming but everything I do is via terminal. I use Kitty Terminal, ZSH with oh-my-zsh for the shell, Zellij for an emulation layer (think tiling and tab manager in kitty), nnn for in terminal file manager, and helix for editor.

I almost never leave the terminal now, except when web browsing.

I agree with this. In my opinion helix is the best code editor.

I use both. I have a self hosted docker compose instance of mailcow, which alerts me when an update is available.

I also use protonmail as well.

Self hosting was a pain in the ass to get working, but I’ve had no issues with it once up. I tossed it behind a reverse proxy to keep it from directly touching the internet.

I use Comic Mono and love it. Code is 100% easier on the eyes and to read.

Not sure the popularity, but here’s what are essential to me:

AnySoftKeyboard - a custom keyboard that supports layouts like workman/colemak

Simple Gallery - Fantastic gallery app

Mule - Secure version of Firefox

OneTracker - simple bullshit free parcel tracker

Xplore - dual pane file manager, been using it for over 10 years. Can’t go back to regular ones

Yubico Authenticator - Used to get OTPs off my Yubikey.

I have more essential apps, but they’d fall close or in popular.

I use Signal, Element (Matrix), built in SMS with grapheneOS, and I self host MatterMost.

I tried Threema, but getting people to move was more difficult than Signal

It seems like it would be calming. Though I feel the tub gets a bit gross for this.

Any chair recommendations for tubs? What about shower heads that work best to not drown you?