LazyVim is what kept me using NeoVim. It made reproducing a usable setup much simpler.
Just curious why is “reproducing the setup” important to you? You need to install it on a lot of systems?
I share my dotfiles repo between my MacBook and Linux pc so anything that goes in there is run on both operating systems.
Yep, that’s a good reason. I guess dot files should also be downloaded from github just like extensions. Makes this stuff a lot easier.
@jim_stark @ericjmorey personally, I’m using my neovim config on personal Mac, work Windows laptop, WSL on windows and few other Linux machines (both personal and work related). It’s at least 5 devices, each with different OS. If neovim would work differently on each of them and the environment wasn’t reproducible, I’d give up with neovim
I’m looking at implementing lazy.nvim, the package manager, but not LazyVim. Personally I like to be in control of everything and LazyVim takes too much away from me.
I learn a lot about lazy.nvim reading LazyVim documentation and config.
You can roll your own after reading the LazyVim, kickstart.nvim, astrovim, etc.
With lazy.nvim, there is little magic in nvim distros.
Astrovim community has many working config and you can reference them as a starter when you add new plugin to your config.
Yes there is definitely a lot that can be learned from those different distributions. The community around them is a big plus. While I don’t use anything magical myself, I’m happy they exist for various reasons.
One nice thing with lazyvim is there’s a single option to disable all the key bindings so you can map them yourself. I really like the set of plugins it comes with too, so I’ve been really happy with the distro so far.
Yeah I like the set of plugins it comes with. It’s definitely a well curated distributions.
What does it take away?
For me LazyVim is just magic I don’t want to learn, along with preferring to have explicit control of the whole setup. Also migrating to something else takes more effort going from one magic to another magic. I’ve just finished migrating from packer to lazy.nvim and I like that I still have all the git history in my plugin/* files.
I’m very happy with my new “vanilla” lazy.nvim setup now.
