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> Its the little things like having baked in instructions to install Windsurf on linux.

When I went to download Cursor the other day I noticed that they do not offer any .deb/.rpm packages and just offer the FlatPak (could be a Snap I'm not sure). This just tells me they really dont understand the community and just wanted to ship something for Linux and be done with it.

>>_fat_s+(OP)
There's a difference between understanding the community and prioritizing investments.

I'm sure Cursor has more than few devs that primarily use Linux...

>>_fat_s+(OP)
>just wanted to ship something for Linux and be done with it.

This what all developers want for a platform. They can release their software and not have to worry about some "maintainer" switching out dependencies out from under them introducing bugs and crashes in what they shipped.

Cursor ships as an AppImage.

>>_fat_s+(OP)
Windsurf has plugins for Jetbrains products, for vim, for emacs, for Visual Studio (not code), XCode, and even eclipse. They try to get as much of the market as possible, while Cursor focuses on the core functionality.

Whenever I tried Windsurf Editor, or their plugin for vim, and Intellij, it didn't feel polished at all. The basic function of autocomplete felt much much snappier on Cursor, and even on GitHub Copilot for vim/intellij.

>>_fat_s+(OP)
> https://www.cursor.com/downloads

Linux builds are in the AppImage format.

Which makes a lot more sense to me than deb/rpm when it's just a single executable.

>>_fat_s+(OP)
appimage is more Linux than .deb/.rpm.