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China is the land of shortcuts with massive surveillance and population control.
I wouldn't trust China for a second, but recently they showcased their version of linux called OpenKylin.
(Edit: I don't trust ANY government in general)
It should be 100% Opensource which could be their way to completely discard WIndows and Mac products.
It certainly looks like a well-polished windows....
https://youtu.be/TU8ypN3VMTs

DK_PETER wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:03 pm China is the land of shortcuts with massive surveillance and population control.

Only Windows has the right to control you.

DK_PETER wrote: Thu Jul 20, 2023 9:03 pm to completely discard WIndows and Mac products

Linux is always available. I switched to Linux because at some point there was a problem with work and I began to learn Linux and did not use Windows for about 3 years. The Windows license allows you to install the OS only by a certified specialist, although I'm not exactly sure about this, at least only from the client's license disk. One service worker boasted that he had become a certified technician, so I figured installation and repair also required a license.
I use Cinnamon, I liked it the most because it is similar to Windows. So you're comparing the windowing shell, not the OS as a whole. You can download a theme similar to Windows of any version. If you have a start button on the taskbar, this does not mean that the system has become like Windows.
Russia also uses its own Astra distribution, and by the way it looks more like Windows, as if the authors were trying to make the transition to this system softer, not requiring study, also a conductor, the same color palette (yellow folders). I used LiveCD to view the system, the authors did not add the ability to install from an ISO file, as other distributions do, that is, I need to burn it to a DVD, but I'm too lazy, so I did not install it.
The more I study Linux, the more I learn about its features, which are sometimes even more interesting than in Windows. Almost all things are there in Linux, but users who have studied Windows for 20 years and have not seen anything other than Windows find it hard to see these features, because they are not installed out of the box, it takes time to get used to and know that these things are there.
But despite the fact that Linux has text editors, I still lack such advanced editors as in Windows, such as AkelPad. Kate is too bulky, Geany doesn't have custom code highlighting, Visual Studio Code takes a long time to launch and is too bulky.

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Concerning text editors for Linux (and other OS'es) with highlighting support I can passionately recommend Scite which is the official Scintilla showcase editor. You can include your own syntax rules and own languages, but it can already a lot. It even had PureBasic syntax support contributed by one or more individuals but it may be a little outdated (perhaps something like PB 4 or 5 but who knows you have to search for it in the net), and it also supports line folding. I use it as a general text editor when I need something better than Notepad. I just downloaded it on a Raspberry Linux 64bit over apt-get and it works too out of the box (on the official page there's only a IA64 installation package for Linux). I use it for Lua and other scripting languages, including configuration and ini files etc. You may edit a few configuration files to harmonize the keyboard shortcuts so that they match the PureBasic IDE (i.e. alt-F4 for line folding) and perhaps little tweaks to enable line numbers in the configuration files for the language or as a general startup settings - no matter what OS you use, and then you can later copy & use the same configuration files on any system.

I wanted to try out shader programming recently, tho, but apparently this isn't something Scite supports by default or I might have overlooked it.