Many reasons, including better support for HiDPI.

That said, there is full X server called Wayback which essentially uses Wayland as a graphics driver. Kind of neat project.

Blasphemy! :)

Of course you could just set EDITOR...

vim has always used cursor keys as long as I've used it (at least 30 years), unless something was really messed up with the terminal settings.

I find programming without vim key bindings frustrating. The basics are what I use the most. change word(s), replace character, yank line(s), delete line(s), paste before, paste after, insert, append, indent block. Even something like append is so powerful. And the best part is the repeat command turns what you just did into a mini macro. So it's really fast to do simple changes (like inserting text at the beginning of a line) down through dozens of lines. I often combine the repeat command with the search command, making ad-hoc refactoring super fast. And it's all muscle memory.

But mostly my comment about NppVim was tongue in cheek since my position is an editor without vim key bindings cannot do what vim can do!

No one has used TCP/IP ports to forward X for decades now. X.org doesn't even listen on those ports anymore. It's all done with unix sockets and shared memory now because of things like OpenGL. It's also because of the needs of modern apps and hardware acceleration that 99% of X11 isn't even used anymore and modern GTK or Qt apps use X11 more like how rdp works, pushing bitmaps across (client-side rendering).

As for what Wayland apparently forces you to do, I am not sure if you're simply misinformed or lying. I ssh -X all the time from KDE on Wayland to forward remote X11 apps. It just works, like it always has. Every app on my distro that can run natively on wayland also has an X11 backend that works for forwarding. As long as the toolkits support X11, this will continue to function. My only problem with Xwayland is it's not easy to deal with some X11 apps that aren't hidpi aware at the same time as X11 apps that are hidpi aware. I really need to be able to run two instances of Xwayland, one for hidpi apps and one where the apps need to be scaled by Xwayland.

Anyway you could sit down at my KDE wayland desktop and if I didn't tell you it was Wayland you'd never know since it everything including ssh -X works as you have always expected it would. Except that things like having a 4K hidpi main monitor and a 1080P second monitor would work, whereas on X11, you cannot have different scale factors on multi monitors.

I think you miss the point of having vim key bindings. To me an editor is unusable without them, or at least a lot less usable. Obviously I can get by with a "normal" editor, but it really hurts my efficiency. Even something as simple as yanking or replacing a word (or words) is painful in a conventional editor compared to the speed and ease with which I can do it with vim-like commands. (You want me to shift arrow key and highlight like an animal when a couple of keystrokes can do it?) And the ability to create ad-hoc macros just by using the vim repeat mechanism is unmatched in a "normal" editor.

But the main benefit is with VI bindings I no longer end up with random ":w," "gg", "GG", etc in my text! In fact a spurious "dd" found its way into this html edit box just now. Buggy software.;)

My only real complaint about VI key bindings is that the undo key is too close to the yank and insert keys, so I often end up hitting the wrong one. And also VI key bindings don't work that well on dvorak keyboards for me.

X11 app forwarding over ssh works just as well when using modern Wayland desktop as it always did, thanks to Xwayland which isn't going away. I use it very frequently. In fact Xwayland is a full X server implementation based on x.org. It runs transparently and automatically on the major desktop environments such as Gnome and KDE. And it will continue to work as long as the applications you run and the toolkits they are built with continue to have an X11 backend.

For Qt this is likely to be the case nearly indefinitely, or maybe until waypipe is mature.

The only worrisome thing is that the Gnome folks are wanting to remove X11 support from GTK+ which will definitely break ssh forwarding for those apps. But I don't use Gnome anymore and I use fewer GTK apps all the time.

Yes with the NppVim plugin installed, Notepad++ can pretty much do everything vim can do.

Yes GUIs are quite useful, even for editors. gVim has a very nice one that does a good job of exposing features through the GUI without removing the power of the vim's command mode.

Fortunately all the good editors out there have plugins or bindings available to implement vim keyboard bindings, at least enough of it to be fast and comfortable. In fact I just recently learned about the VibreOffice plugin for LibreOffice, which I must try out.

Sigh. Gboard made a mess of that post and I didn't hit preview. My apologies for the noise

No you can't. Mainly because there really aren't any available not do I expect their ever will be. Except for Tesla and polestar, there are no Chinese EVs that meet north American standards. This was true before the EV tariff. Tesla was the biggest importer of EVs made in China.

But even if you could actually buy a Chinese EV I'm Canada you'd have to import it into the US, subjecting yourself to the tariff of you were allowed to import at all.

You honestly argue the sheer amount of music available in the 90s was just as much as today?b I think you completely missed my point. In fact you quoted one part of my post but actually responded to the unquoted portion. I never said music wasn't simple before. I was referencing the sheer volume now on Spotify and implying that the amount of it means the amount of garbage is therefore much greater also even if the proportion of good to bad is better or the same as before. And now we have an algorithm driving people to the trash and it's doing it in ways radio never did or could do before.

Clueless but still has plenty of money to burn. The only way to effectively run OpenClaw with Claude is to pay $100 a month to anthropic. So I'm not so sure the bot owner isn't complicit and not out to deliberately cause mischief.

True, but the volume today is orders of magnitude more. But also music has gotten more and more simplistic in recent years, relying on hooks to grab listeners. Rick Beato expresses it much better than I.

Modded Troll, really?

Will Hyundai ever fix the stupidity where you cannot precondition the battery for fast charging without being forced to use the in-dash navigation system? Seems so dumb. It's just a software switch they need to expose.

In general this insistence on putting wheels on a computer really turns me off of EVs, though I really want one. EV makers seem to think that drivers are too stupid to drive without the navigation system on telling them how to drive to their local grocery store (which happens to have a fast charger in the parking lot).