One really nice aspect of fzf completion for ctrl-r is the ability to view multiple candidates at once. It's easier to only show one option to the user, but it's less useful.
(VS Code's Command Palette and modern Emacs minibuffer packages also have this advantage.)
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I've just realised that Community Fibre, my ISP, offers 5 Gb/s packages in some London addresses!
I'm struggling to imagine a use case for such a high residential bandwidth. When I switched to 1 Gb/s I needed to upgrade my wifi router to actually take advantage.
The most common selling point I hear for Nix is having a list of all the packages you need.
On a traditional Linux distro, I just install things and forget about them. A curated, commented list would certainly be handy when I have a new system.
I've been really enjoying paru as a pacman substitute on Arch Linux: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru
It allows you to update both normal and AUR packages in one go, which is super convenient. It also shows you PKGBUILD files, so there's still a human audit step for AUR.
