Just wondering: how would you characterize the general feel of the different nvim flavours: LazyVim, Chad, Astro, etc.? I’m not thinking functionality, which plugins are included, etc., but the way they feel when one uses them.

I tried out a whole bunch of them, as per Elijah Manor’s excellent video about config switching (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkHjJlSgKZY)

I figured out LazyVim is trying its best not to look and feel like vim, with modal windows and fancy graphics and all. I didn’t like that. I can’t remember why I left Astro behind, but I finally settled on Chad, which at first I disliked because of the name, but eventually I figured out that that was the flavour for me: so many things just worked as expected, and there were so many times when I looked up something, and went: “Hm! That was quite smart, actually!”

So that’s where I’m at – and purely for “feel” reasons. So: convince me: what am I missing when I don’t use bundle B or config C?

  • huntrss
    3•2 years ago

    I currently use Astro at the moment but have some issues with it. I started to use kickstart, which is not a bundle actually but some kind of minimal configuration. I like it for my personal projects but it doesn’t work at all for the C# .NET project from work. Unfortunately I don’t have the time nor do I want to invest the time to configure most of the things myself, but I do see a lot of merit in doing so. I personally learned a lot of additional built-in commands and features from “vanilla” neovim by using kickstart that I don’t regret it at all for trying out.