Just for fun and discovery.
Same as for distros and DE/WM.
Share your own, as an image, or just a written list. :)
Mine:
- Fave: Fin
- First: Kate/Kwrite (KDE3 era (… no logo back then though?))
- Future: Fin
- Honourable Mention: Midnight Commander’s mcedit
- Loathed: Copilot Studio
- Current: GNU Emacs
- Longest: GNU Emacs
;) I didn’t want to wait and see if @misty@lemmy.zip would make a text editor one. So I just made my own. :)
they did their autoupdate through an unencrypted connection, without any verification, and just executed the payload locally. when pressed about it they added https but then it turned out they had no auth on the update server. it was a whole thing, took several years for them to correct and they complained every step.