Found out the version of neovim on PopOS was fairly outdated, and I would like to use more recent versions. So I am confronted with these choices : Do I go for PPAs, or is distrobox fine for this purpose? While distrobox works well, I am worried that mismatches in packages could cause issues.

About flatpak: it is a no-go for me in this usecase, since it takes quite a bit of configuration to “escape” the sandbox.

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    8 months ago

    I’d suggest nix and home-manager. I just added the following to my home.nix, and lazyvim works perfectly fine on nvim 0.9.5 (0.9.4 on the stable branch):

      home.packages = with pkgs;
        ([
           ...
          #neovim
          #git,make,npm,node,and ripgrep are already installed
          neovim
          python311
          python311Packages.pip
          # python311Packages.pynvim
          luajitPackages.luarocks
          cargo
          # lunarvim
          lazygit
          tree-sitter
          nerdfonts
          ....
        ]);