u/Candid_Athlete_8317

Ubuntu is probably one of the main reasons many people successfully switch from Windows to Linux.

But after some time, a lot of users seem to move to Fedora, Mint, Arch, Rocky Linux, openSUSE, or other distros.

Some say Ubuntu changed too much.
Some don’t like Snap.
Some want more control or a different experience.
Others still say Ubuntu is the easiest and most reliable option.

So what made you stay with Ubuntu, or what made you leave it?

I still see people spending most of their day inside Vim, Neovim, or Emacs even now when tools like VSCode basically do everything out of the box.

Some even use their editor for terminal work, Git, notes, debugging, file management, and almost everything else.

At the same time, others look at that setup and think: “why make life harder?”

I am not sure, what keeps people attached to these editor-first workflows after all these years?

Is it speed? Muscle memory? Customization? Minimalism? Or something modern IDEs still don’t get right?