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You’re both being antagonistic. While Zed may be VC backed, they’re providing a world class open source editor experience for free. There are no expectations in either direction. You’re not a special customer paying them to care about Linux. And you also don’t owe them volunteer effort to help resolve some Linux issue you encountered. They failed to convert. You missed out on honestly possibly the best editor out there right now. That’s that.

The antagonistic part is assuming your specific Linux configuration is innately Zed’s issue. It’s possible simply mentioning it to them would lead you quickly and easily to a solution, no free labor needed. It’s possible Zed is prepared to spend their vast VC resources on fixing your setup, even—which seems to be what you expect. Point being there’s a middle ground where you telling Zed “hey it didn't work well for me” gives Zed the chance to resolve any issues on their end in order to properly convert you, if you truly are interested in trying their editor. You don’t need to respond to the suggestion with a lecture on how companies exploit free volunteer labor and anything short of software served up on a silver platter would make you complicit. It’s really a little absurd.

If I had to guess, your system globally or their rendering library specifically is probably stuck on llvmpipe.



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