Linux Graphical User Interface Text Editor

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Linux Graphical User Interface Text Editor

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Graphical User Interface (GUI) based text editor or "code editor" for Linux Desktop. google.com linux graphical text editor.

Alphabetically sorted list:

Atom, "GitHub officially discontinued Atom on December 15, 2022"

Bluefish, https://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

Featherpad, https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad

GEdit, https://gedit-text-editor.org/ I cant be sure but this seems like default GNOME "Text Editor" program(?)

Geany, https://www.geany.org/

IME, could not find any google search results for a homepage, seems it needs some "framework" begin with to work.

Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor), https://kate-editor.org/

Micro, https://micro-editor.github.io/ however this looks like terminal based text editor, why someone would recommend this as GUI editor, huh :?

Mousepad, having hard time finding links, one is https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/mousepad which is not a homepage, hmph!?

Notepad++ under Wine? :) nope, not really, the whole point of using linux is free and open source LINUX software, its a huge negative if you have to use wine to run windows programs.

Notepadqq, google returned https://notepadqq.com/ but the website was not working when I tried :? https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq

Pluma, https://github.com/mate-desktop/pluma

Sublime Text https://www.sublimetext.com/ however this is proprietary software which cost money (has free trial through).

Visual Studio Code (vscode?), https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux is open source yes but microsoft telemetry gathering activated by default, just the fact that there is even an telemetry option and its microsoft product, should already ring enough alarm bells.

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