For someone who just wants a sane editor, I don’t need not care for seeing up my own config or keeping up to date with neovim plugins. Like you mention vim.pack, but why should I add a user need to keep up with which plugins has the latest congenital features?
The advantage of a distro is that somebody else sets up sane defaults, keeps plugins up to date and uses the latest cool plugins. All without me needing to spend any time reading documentation and trying to set up a new plugin. And it still allows me full customization, where it’s easy to add or disable plugins.
Essentially all a distro does is move the starting point from a very basic text editor to a fairly advanced text editor. So to me it feels like a no brainier to use as my base, because somebody with 10x my experience with vim will be better at designing a work flow with vim than I will.
For someone who just wants a sane editor, I don’t need not care for seeing up my own config or keeping up to date with neovim plugins. Like you mention vim.pack, but why should I add a user need to keep up with which plugins has the latest congenital features?
The advantage of a distro is that somebody else sets up sane defaults, keeps plugins up to date and uses the latest cool plugins. All without me needing to spend any time reading documentation and trying to set up a new plugin. And it still allows me full customization, where it’s easy to add or disable plugins.
Essentially all a distro does is move the starting point from a very basic text editor to a fairly advanced text editor. So to me it feels like a no brainier to use as my base, because somebody with 10x my experience with vim will be better at designing a work flow with vim than I will.