I have switched to using zed as my code editor. I’d been using VSCode and always wanted to leave it behind but just never found a replacement that really worked for me – until now. Compared to the electron-based VSCode, zed is wicked fast!
It looks pretty good; I’ll test it out more thoroughly today.
Do you know where you can set it so that files open in a new tab?
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Pretty awesome choice indeed. 
I check to make sure we already added it:
So many pieces and parts of all our workflows that we need to stitch together. 
If Microsoft and Mac only knew, how much we are all willing to switch and try new things when provided or allowed to create and share options, instead of being forced. 
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capeable of what ?
it won’t work without vulkan 
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Halano, are you saying that it would not work unless there is enough memory, and hardware, to provide expected multi-layered graphics framebuffers, to allow the OpenGL successor to perform properly?
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IronRod (is that Rodney?), did I correctly understand from the quick review of the home that the “editor” is a full-fleged IDE with AI assist?
If so, if during your search, you’ve looked at reviews for that, do they give any indication of how much the “assist” could potentially “interfere” with the creative gestalts that congeal true original coding?
I put it that way intentionally, because my thought processes can get completely scrambled if interrupted while in one of my deep “resolution” modes! I wouldn’t want any AI assistive pop-up to throw my “scent” off the solution’s trail.
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I know that if you pin a tab that has a file, me files are opened in a new tab. Otherwise, not sure; still learning…
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If you’re asking how much the AI interferes, it doesn’t unless you want it to; i.e., it is an option, not a requirement.
In my situation where I chose Claude Code, it doesn’t do anything unless I open the agent panel and ask it to do something.
And, as with all AI, you can (and I do) give it an upfront set of instructions (i.e.,CLAUDE.md) that tells it to take no action with out first presenting the proposal and getting my approval to proceed. It is always prompt driven.
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Ah, you double-click a file instead of single click…
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If you are poking a hole in my title where I included “capable”, I meant that it is cabaple in the sense that it works for my coding/project needs in terms of filling the space now vacated by VSCode.
As to Vulkan, I cannot speak to that. It works on my system and I did not dig into it below that at this point.
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that can be done with ddraw or opengel 1.0
I’d prefer zed over vscode too, but low compatibles with older system.
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@IronRod I’m glad you found the right tool for you.
When @hydn wrote his article about 50 Linux Text Editors You Should Know About that was one of the articles that brought my attention here, so you can imagine that I’m a huge text editor fanatic. One thing in my own fanatic-ness is that I don’t insist or expect others to pick the tools that I prefer, I’m just happy that there are enough alternatives so that we can find what’s appropriate for the things we like to do. In my case I have several editors I enjoy and I use each of them for different reasons.
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Totally, totally agree @Brian_Masinick! When I share something, it is always “Hey, I found this thing, it is working for me, I thought you might be interested.” That’s it; no expectation beyond that. (If what I wrote implied otherwise, that was never the intent.) Truly, I am not emotionally invested in my tools nor do I care what others choose to use – distro, tool, or whatever – other than if they are looking for help.
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Yeah I think most of us here feel that way; we share what we use but I have long been someone who not only prefers personal freedom I also believe that each person is entitled to their own preferences whether it’s using free or commercial hardware and software.
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I spent the whole day yesterday testing Zed. I can’t say right now which one I like better, CodeOSS or Zed.
I like both—damn 
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That’s always the challenge for me when I go exploring new tools. 
I’ll be interested to hear from you where you end up. I haven’t looked at CodeOSS. Now I have another one to look at! (UPDATE: Just looked at the repo; interesting, wasn’t aware of how this was being done.)
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I just found the mention on Reddit:
VSCodium is FOSS and the project isn’t managed by or under control of Microsoft. The only relation it has with Microsoft is that it is a Code OSS fork (Code OSS is a Microsoft project).
Given that, have you considered looking at VSCodium?
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I used to use Codium.
For me - I can’t say exactly why, or I don’t remember anymore - Codium caused problems, and Code OSS works better for me.
On the surface, Code OSS, Codium, and the original from Microsoft are almost identical
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Back when I explored the 50 Linux text editors that @hydn featured in his article, I tried out both vscodium and zed. Both are capable editors; arguably the codium variations are more powerful but zed is capable and leaner.
Neither are installed any more; I’m more of an ancient classic editor guy. I have multiple variations of vi in my collection, including a recent update (mostly security and platform updates, to the original vi, updated by “Gritter” in Version 4.0 vi; I also have the BSD vi, called nvi, vim, and neovim (with multiple graphical interfaces to neovim), plus Emacs, but mine is Doom Emacs, which offers modern generation key bindings and optimizations not found in the standard GNU Emacs without the distribution provided by Doom Emacs; this gives me Emacs and Vi capabilities brought into the modern era for these classic tools, and that’s a big reason I use them - BOTH of them are finger familiar to me, so the familiarity keeps me with them.
Nevertheless I enjoy any discussion of text editors; the editor and Web Browser interfaces are two of the things that I regularly follow along with distro curiosity!
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I may have said it elsewhere but, like Brian, I’m “old school”, modernized.
My only editor is GVim, no extensions or add-ons except for syntax hilighting, or vi if in terminal mode only! That way, I know I will have what I need wherever I go!
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