It definitely is rather reminiscent of older Windows versions with the seperate application launchers, fully expanded task bar entries that show the name of an app that are ungrouped (until necessary). And the widgets are very reminiscent of Rainmeter.
But I also bring some things from macOS that I enjoyed such as the global menu on the top (sadly Firefox flatpak does not support), virtual desktops with the pager widget on the bottom, and I use Krunner a lot (plasma’s equivalent to macOS “Spotlight”)
I hope your switch to Linux goes well if / when you switch!
The plugin that brings the “starter” / “welcome” screen when
nvim
is called without a file ismini.starter
, a lua module of themini
plugin. My primary use case for neovim is closer to a feature complete text editor rather than a full fledged IDE, although there definitely is some overlap in my setup.My set of plugins are roughly as follows
vim-plug
, I will likely replace this one withpacker
at some pointgoyo.vim
andlimelight.vim
for distraction free viewing and editingnnn.nvim
to integrate thennn
file manager into neovimmini.nvim
according to the Github, “Library of 35+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.7 and higher) experience with minimal effort. They all share same configuration approaches and general design principles.”mini.surround
feature rich surround actionsmini.statusline
a very simple no-frills statuslinemini.starter
aformentioned start screenmini.pairs
inserts the paired character, e.g typing(
will automatically place)
behind the cursorsmini.move
move selectionsmini.map
has a little map of the file similar to VScode among many other IDEs & text editorsbarbar.nvim
Tabbar pluginnvim-treesitter
for syntax highlightingAnd the remaining things in my
init.lua
file are just keybindings, setting up the plugins, and disabling the swapfile etc. when editing my password secrets ingopass
among other ‘secret’ files