Welcome to KWrite

Here is a random journal entry I saved on my computer. I wrote it using a text editor on Arch Linux, but decided to post it here on my blog. I apologize if the language is a little more harsh:

Yeah, shocker. This is the first entry I'm not writing on Google Docs or TextEdit, and that's because I wanted to try KWrite. KWrite is KDE Plasma's default text editor. Although simple, it's actually pretty solid and even has that sweet, sexy syntax highlighting. KDE Plasma is the desktop environment I chose to run Arch Linux on. As I begin to use Arch Linux more and more, I am beginning to discover more and more things I love about it. First off, KRunner. This is KDE's Spotlight search, but dare I say it's a bit better...? Maybe it's the fact that you can customize it within the system settings. You're even able to add specific websites that it searches within to make searching even quicker. It's insane. You can also change the position of it on screen; I prefer it to be right smack in the middle, as that's where my eyes rest 95% of the time. This is part of the reason I hate ChromeOS's search key. The stupid thing searches things on the right hand side of the screen, which makes no sense. Now I gotta move my eyes to the right side just to see. I know that the search is pretty good, but this inconvenience pisses me off. Years ago, the search key actually did bring up a window in the middle of the screen, as it should. No clue why they decided to remove this. You may think I'm nit picky or a whiny little bitch for complaining about something so simple, but trust me. If you are used to using MacOS everyday and using Spotlight, you will get sick of it. The extra 10 milliseconds will add up.

KRunner is pretty damn solid. If my computer was faster and newer, I think it would be even better. I have noticed that it will lag a bit upon searching something really fast. It takes just a bit to fully show what I searched, which can get annoying if 2 things have similar names. Plus, when opening/closing the KRunner, I notice that it is not nearly as fast as my Spotlight. I don't really know if it actually takes a nano second to open or if it is just because my Chromebook is slow. Either way, it is so trivial that it doesn't make me like it any less. In order to open KWrite this time, all I had to type was:

alt + space

"writ"

Boom. That it's. Just that keyboard shortcut and "writ", and it instantly knew I wanted KWrite. How amazing. Same with the file manager. Just type "dol" and it instantly boots up. If I had a faster computer, this would be extremely efficient (obviously apps take a second to open because of my amazing hardware).


Besides talking about KRunner and KDE, let's discuss other tech relating things I discovered today on Monday:

1) iMovie, even on the newest M4 Mac Minis, will lag and occasionally crash if you make to many cuts in a long video. I recorded a 30 minute video for YT with the screen recorder. This didn't have any gaming or heavy software, literally Safari. Not a big file, but once I made enough cuts, iMovie lags on the timeline. When you play the video back, it can randomly mute and then crash. This software, while pretty stable, still has a lot of things I hate about it.

2) Google Drive lets you add descriptions to folders, which I find amazing, since that means that I can give folders stupid ass names to look back on.

3) Google Feud is extremely difficult, but also very addicting. I played for over 45 minutes and uploaded a video to YT.

4) Google Drawings is fun, but there's something more fun about using a complicated ass software and not knowing what the hell you're doing. GIMP, as an example, is basically open-source photoshop/paint. Even though it's FOSS, it's surprisingly complicated with a shit ton of features and menus and buttons that make no sense. I installed GIMP on this computer, and it actually is able to boot up pretty quickly. It's a bit laggy and not the most optimal for a tiny laptop like this, but it runs. Very lightweight software.

5) KWrite is awesome. As I type more and more lines, I am slowing liking this program more and more. I know I already glazed TextEdit in my previous YT video, but damn, this one's pretty good too. I haven't tested if it can view or edit RTF's, but for plain txt files, it's pretty good. The interface is clean and simple, it never lags, and I fucking LOVE this bar to the left that shows what parts of your doc haven't been saved. That is so damn intuitive and genius. It's also satisfying to see a whole bunch of text be saved with just ctrl+s in a millisecond. If I ever need to run an application along side something that requires notes, text, or a reference sheet, you best believe I'm using KWrite.