Fedora devs often also develop those components and are among the first to integrate them. Fedora seems like a great desktop for those curious about what's coming next to the Linux desktop stack.
NixOS doesn't curate a default desktop experience like Fedora does, but it's also a great place to enjoy some of this tech early, and in a very risk-free way thanks to declarative configuration and rollbacks. PipeWire has been effortless to set up (and impressively compatible, performance, and unobtrusive in its own right!) on NixOS for some time now.
A rolling release or a cutting edge kind of distro, even with regular releases, can be really nice if you're into exploring this stuff, like you say.
I'm a big fan of NixOS, but sometimes it is obscenely difficult to test new things.
Example is iptables-nft. On every other distribution installing that is enough to make all applications use the nft version. In NixOS, you can easily change the environment path to iptables-nft, but any package that can modify rules won't be updated. And a package that updates rules is systemd. So attempting what is normally a 1 minute change is now recompiling every single package.
I mean... any distribution is like that, no? Pipewire for example has been in Debian since two releases ago. You would probably not to run it on those releases unless you were building your own up-to-date bug-fixed packages from a custom repo, but that is not out of the question especially with CI/CD being what it is nowadays.
Neovim is extensibility and versatility. If you want a rich development environment, you can put in the work, or use one of the many preconfigured environments, and turn neovim into that.
If you want a bare ultra fast, terminal text editor, neovim is that out of the box.
If your only after LSP, tree sitter, embedded terminal, neovim's got your back.
Basically, neovim embodies the beauty of Linux. Use and pay only for what you want.
Glad to see this app in the front page of HN. Absolutely love the app. The biggest props for me are caldav sync. It allows me to self host and get away from the figure ecosystem.
I just setup a mail in as box instance and boom! Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Todo list, and storage all outside of Google in a heart beat. And this app is just the best for managing Todo items. Just love it!
Shutting for sarcastic not offensive :)