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[–] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 18 points 9 months ago

I ignored Geany for years.

Sometimes it came preinstalled, so I knew about it. I didn't program, why would I need more than, say, whatever the basic text editor was?

Then I found myself in the position of only having one working computer (other than my company-provided laptop): a raspberry pi 400. The Raspberry Pi Desktop (Debian) comes with Geany preinstalled and I just started using it one day. I got it. It is light, it has some extra options, plugins, themes... Looking forward to updating later to see if there are any big changes.