Zed Editor Overview | Linux Quick Start

[@zerotheory941]

any editor + vim motions = gold

[@zherka_pill]

fax

[@no_name4796]

Builtin vim motion >>> vim motion extension/plugin (ie vscode, jupyter lab,...)

[@Golden2Talon]

There is 0 difference ​@@no_name4796

[@GoogleUser-uv9bo]

​@@no_name4796extremist, I'm with u! 😌

[@no_name4796]

@@GoogleUser-uv9bo not really. Just that builtin features are more compatible with the rest of the environment, thus just work better

[@alveek]

Installed Zed on my old laptop, works great! Much faster than vscode! Thx for the video

[@mattdonnelly3743]

Please make more videos dude, really like your style. Liked and subbed.

[@brian.cooper]

Thanks man, I absolutely will. This comment is huge inspiration for me whether you know it or not. Expect more videos this month.

[@sharjeel_mazhar]

Can you please make a video on how your setup your arch DE? That's really cool and also how did you made the right side panel of zed transparent?

[@Community-Compute]

Good video! They just released the officially-supported stable Linux build today, I thnk. Or at the very least quite recently!

[@weiSane]

Oh my god who tf made the website as white as snow like that. Our eyes are suffering with all that white glare. Love zed though

[@haleycooper785]

Fr, and that glowing white man in the corner too

[@weiSane]

@@haleycooper785it’s atrocious man . Seriously

[@jdrab]

Oh no white background is fine. That's just popular misconception and wrong lighting in your room/environment it has nothing to do with white color per-se. 🦸

[@no_name4796]

Install dark reader. At least avoids bleeding your eyes from the light of all the white in websites

[@starllama2149]

Learn to look at white web pages. It's better for your eyes

[@TechAceYoutube]

I am using Zed on Arch Linux but I am unable to save the Sign-in session or open the file picker, it shows some error related to the xdg desktop portal. Do you have any idea on how to fix it?

[@chirzul]

can i do zed's collaboration call on linux ? i can hear the other voice but i can't unmute myself

[@ryantackett9057]

how did you make zed transparent but then opaque when a document is open? haven't seen this in any of the docs and it looks really cool!

[@brian.cooper]

Hey, it's actually one simple setting! In Zed `settings.json`, set "experimental.theme_overrides": { "background.appearance": "blurred" } You can also play with the background setting in there with opacity hex characters supported. For example `"background": "#282a3650"` to set 50% opacity on #282a36 color

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

It work on any linux on wsl or hyperv?iam ask

[@thecompanioncube4211]

WSL is for terminal applications. Zed is a desktop application so it’ll not work with WSL.

[@cariyaputta]

What's your experience with debugging on Zed?

[@leonardobetti8811]

thanks for the video. are you using Wayland or X11? Ive been triend to install zed-preview from the Aur for a while, however I still got error. Perhaps is that an error with the packages from the Aur? ==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check! -> error making: zed-preview-exit status 1 -> Failed to install the following packages. Manual intervention is required: zed-preview - exit status 1

[@brian.cooper]

I am using Wayland, however I get that error too currently. The issue is that there is a build hash validation issue for 0.140.2-1 in the AUR. What you could do is install an older version (e.g. 0.140.0-1 in the video), skip the integrity check (depends on your package manager, I use paru but for yay look into `--skipinteg`), or make the package with `makepkg` and update the hash in the `PKGBUILD` (look into `updpkgsums`) so it works correctly. Hopefully that gives you some useful leads, let me know if you still need help!

[@leonardobetti8811]

@@brian.cooper mate thanks for the input. unfortunatelly build failed. I tried using yay -S --noconfirm --mflags --skipinteg zed-preview will try using makepkg method after lunch. I might need to wait for the bin version or a flatpak repo. Shame, because I really love Zed on MacOS

[@brian.cooper]

@@leonardobetti8811 Let me know if you get stuck with making the package. There is some flatpak progress you might want to check out, though it is secondary to the team as they work on the native Linux install process: github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/12006#issuecomment-2134191883

[@mrlectus]

@@leonardobetti8811 have you got it working?

[@theavxragegamer4837]

Nice video, I'm also trying to use Zed on arch (zed-preview), but the app won't open up. I can see it on system monitor, and Zed's status shows up as sleeping. Any idea how I can change that? thanks

[@brian.cooper]

I would check the logs, for me they are at `~/.local/share/zed/logs/Zed.log`. See if you find any clear issue there. Feel free to attach it here and I can help debug!

[@AdityaRaj-gq3up]

A quick question i am a begineer to linux I installed zed using the curl how can i uninstall it i want to install using package managers.

[@eyesight2073]

May be you can just delete the binary file. You can find the zed binary file using: whereis zed

[@Just_Areki]

Not a perfect solution, but if you have System Monitor app, you may have ability to watch process file location while running Zed, and then just *sudo rm* that file

[@AdityaRaj-gq3up]

txnn it worked

[@unailopezlozano6248]

Hi, i just tried to install zed with yay but when i try to launch it, it just never appears, i cant find the reason to this, if anyone coult help me, it would be great !

[@brian.cooper]

What package did you install from the AUR? Do you get any useful console output when you run zed with `zed --foreground`?

[@Nephys]

The thing I love most about vim/nvim is that since it runs inside the terminal I can leave my desktop, pickup my laptop, ssh into my workstation, attach to my tmux session and easily pickup where I left.

[@no_name4796]

Or also the fact that if you need anything, you are already in a terminal, no need to open anything. Just ctrl+z, do whatever you need to do and fg

[@brian.cooper]

Agreed, (neo)vim are great. Also check out Helix (github.com/helix-editor/helix) if you haven't. A Zed TUI is being discussed here: github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/7493

[@no_name4796]

@@brian.cooper the problem with helix is that you get basically no advantages over vim, it's basically the same concept but works in a different way. But vim is the standard, you will find vim motions EVERYWHERE. Helix motions are used only in helix and kakoon. Since at the end of the day you gain nothing compared to vim, it makes no sense to switch from vim to helix still helix is better then vscode. At the very least you can still work in a terminal without using your entire ram just to open a config file lol

[@merciful9042]

do you guys know if it's possible to export it through a distrobox? i already have an arch container would prefer to do that instead of building it

[@brian.cooper]

Man what a great question. I haven't tried this with distrobox but I'm curious about this as well. I use distrobox in one of my workflows so maybe I'll try this out, if I do I will let you know

[@merciful9042]

@@brian.cooper thanks, i can tell you i gave it a try yesterday without much success, wasn't able to export succesfully the zed-preview and the zed-git versions. The zed basic version was exported but when called didn't do anything both inside and outside the container, it's probably my fault i'm kinda a noob in linux i don't know.

[@deba33]

Hey, I like your waybar config. can you share it? plz.

[@brian.cooper]

For sure, kind of messy at the moment though: github.com/coopbri/dots/tree/master/.config/waybar

[@deba33]

@@brian.cooper thanks

[@Ssionn]

Can someone tell me how I can enable the voice calling on linux, or is it still in development?

[@reaperal7479]

How did you install zed preview I’m having 16gb of ram while downloading it , my laptop crashes with 14gb of ram usages while building and compiling

[@brian.cooper]

Since this video came out, aur.archlinux.org/packages/zed-preview-bin was added to the AUR which is a prebuilt binary of Zed Preview. Give that a try! Should work much better for you since you don't have to build it (I switched to this package myself)

[@reaperal7479]

@@brian.cooper okay, ah thanks , new features are working now

[@RuslanIvanyuk-ub8fj]

Does it allow toggling overtype mode on pressing the "Insert" button?

[@acriliqueofc]

Well you gave me enough reasons to try the preview. good video btw

[@WillDelish]

zed feels very nice. I think zed could be the best nvim alternative or they could embrace being a really nice terminal. Then nvim folks might use it just for that

[@shafiq_ramli]

Zed is faster than vscode because it's written in rust

[@pyqio]

I mean, Rust >> Js, all the way through

[@vitalysuper3193]

Yeah… and also doesn’t support many cool vscode extensions. Why don’t they make a compatibility layer? Then I could switched to it instantly

[@Wizatek]

I wouldn't say its faster because its written in rust, its faster because its not written in javascript/electron.

[@vitalysuper3193]

@@Wizatek yes that's why people say it's written in rust. However zod sucks, rebuild managed to build also rust based tool but still supports webpack plugins, and mod doesn't support vscode plugins!

[@karansmittal]

Really great showcase of zed!

[@brian.cooper]

Thanks a lot Karan! More content to come soon 😊

[@abhijeetshashwatpathak7248]

which DESKTOP manager do u use?

[@brian.cooper]

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean compositor I use Hyprland. You can see all of the core software I have on my desktop (including compositor) here: github.com/coopbri/dots?tab=readme-ov-file#core

[@the_mellobean]

Any extensions like Live Server?

[@mustxx5651]

How do you get the status bar on this system❤?

[@brian.cooper]

The status bar is called waybar. My waybar config is here: github.com/coopbri/dots/tree/master/.config/waybar

[@twenty-fifth420]

For now, I am using Helix, but one day I will be using Zed when it is official. Right now, I am more concerned with building/testing Gimp for near release, not Zed. That said, I think even if I go back to Helix, I want to 'Zed' to win. It feels modern and VS Code like without having to throw your entire kitchen ram at the beast.

[@priapushk996]

8:11 What's happening? Seems like guy hits TAB to induce an AI to insert a pointless comment?

[@brian.cooper]

😂

[@tyler361t2]

could you make a tutorial on how to get llama working with zed on linux

[@brian.cooper]

Absolutely! I'll do a video on setting up various LLMs on zed. Stay tuned

[@tyler361t2]

@@brian.cooper tell me when please

[@jacp69]

in what lenguage is zed developed?

[@brian.cooper]

Rust 🦀

[@desvendandoornasaude4127]

So, it looks like Zed tries to merge the best of the two worlds (vs code and vim). Btw coding with copilot is like coding pasting code. 😊

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

Is there an update to work on Windows as well?

[@brian.cooper]

Track github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

@@brian.cooper not work

[@viniciusmelquiades]

I just checked and it's also available for NixOS. I guess I'll test it out

[@brian.cooper]

Let me know your experience! I tried it with nix-env on Arch and it worked great so should be good on NixOS

[@viniciusmelquiades]

@@brian.cooper tomorrow I'll test it on my work PC, which I use with WSL. If I have time I'll also test on my personal machine with NixOS

[@viniciusmelquiades]

@@brian.cooper I'll try it out on my work pc tomorrow,but it uses WSL. If I have time I'll also try on my NixOS personal machine

[@sideone3581]

Same is I am with nvim and vscode I am obsessed with react and React native snippets like rnfe, rnfes so I just do my RN code on vs code and other backend and stuffs on nvim

[@person9627]

you can add the snippets to nvim via a plugin. will share it here later

[@person9627]

{ "dsznajder/vscode-es7-javascript-react-snippets", run = "yarn install --frozen-lockfile && yarn compile", },

[@a4arpon]

Do you have any solution based on snippets?

[@brian.cooper]

Talk about timing. Snippets are now supported as of v0.141.0: github.com/zed-industries/zed/releases/tag/v0.141.0-pre

[@MaybeBL1TZ]

i know this is all about zed , but i wanna know how to make my arch linux look like yours , what window manager you use what's your config all these kind of stuff also if you could do a video tutorial will be great keep it up 💪

[@brian.cooper]

Hey man, I appreciate it. I am happy to help you with this, and I will absolutely make a video in the near future, just want to make sure my configs are more stable before doing that, they're kind of a mess right now. All of my system configs, including window manager and so on are in my dotfiles repo: github.com/coopbri/dots Check the "Software" section in the README to see an outline of the key pieces you're looking for I will let you know once I roll out a video about this, should be within the next month or so. If you have questions feel free to reach out!

[@MaybeBL1TZ]

@@brian.cooper Thanks for your reply i'll definitely be waiting for this video

[@pixelcatcher123]

Will give it a shot

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

It need gpu?

[@the_mellobean]

Is there auto save as well?

[@thecompanioncube4211]

Yeah I think there is a setting for that

[@isrbillmeyer]

I thought zed was still months away from being ready on Linux.

[@brian.cooper]

It has some work still before it is considered officially ready, however I've been running it well for several weeks on Linux!

[@Light-f5g]

It is available now in Linux you can see there webpage

[@korigamik]

I cannot copy and paste on wayland Linux

[@brian.cooper]

github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12054

[@korigamik]

@@brian.cooper dang

[@Tom-eu2gq]

you say that it's free but is it really ? it's a copyleft licence, not copyright

[@brian.cooper]

Agreed, I should have clarified that it is copyleft.

[@haleycooper785]

Oh my God this guy is insane. Thank you so much for your help. You and your words are very attractive and have helped me through such a hard time. I hope your parents, specifically your dad, are proud.

[@aiyolo2914]

your desktop is so cool!

[@brian.cooper]

Thanks a lot 😄 It's driven by code and my configs are all open source. You can check them out at github.com/coopbri/dots. A bunch of people asked me how to do it so I will definitely make a video about it

[@TheKay1024]

@@brian.cooper Please do! As someone currently getting deeper into Arch, I would love to see that.

[@xtiooplus]

Right now Linux is supported! :-) nice!

[@TheGeorey]

Text too small viewing in mobile

[@brian.cooper]

Will fix that in future videos, cheers mate

[@zherka_pill]

try nvim

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

it is not run on wid,linux,mac Double click ,itis not run

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

it need gpu

[@antoniomonteiro3698]

amazing! it can do different colors and stuff. can't it open a existing project? nah... that's asking too much. In other words... I'm getting too old for this :( edit: ok, I'm installing the preview version - it's going to be much better!... doesn't do anything at all, no ui shows up... :(

[@QorQar]

how to run zed on windows

[@brian.cooper]

Track github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/5394 for updates to this

[@ajaypatro1554]

ubuntu??

[@MdKais-lf6wj]

arch btw.

[@CodiceMente]

So Zed supports all the integrations/plugins that VSCode supports? If that so, I'll try it, otherwise VSCode can't be beated. Sorry but enough of the "new tools hype". It's slow and memory hungry, but it's battle tested. We'll see in a couple years from now...

[@Wasabi.Script]

They don't know features is not the reason we use windows instead of mac

[@Resursator]

Wow, it's not mac-only now.

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

Does he work in wsl windows

[@HaiderKhan-6410]

❤❤❤

[@matheusazevedooliveira8222]

I feel like there's no way to take this team seriously if they are gonna built a code editor, for developers, and not include the two most used OS on release date. How can you expect me to try it on your editor if I have to go trough all this trouble just to run it? They seem dead already on release to me...

[@_tanzil_]

My question is, if Zed developers are better than VScode developers then why couldn't they compete with VScode with their already established editor Atom!? Why did they fail? And now after years of dying, now they have come to convince us that Zed is gonna kill VScode. Kinda funny

[@Takatou__Yogiri]

GitHub decided to end support for atom. And atom died. Zed is faster and very smoother than vs code. I was amazed how fast it is when i used it first time. Whatever ide you use it's your personal preference. If someone say zed is vs code killer then its their personal taste. I like zed but i couldn't switch to zed completely because it doesn't have all the extensions i use on vs code for free.

[@_tanzil_]

@Takatou__Yogiri exactly it doesn't have all the extension and many other VScode features yet. An empty bottle is always light. VScode is heavy because it has so many stuff to make our life easier.

[@siduck_og]

zed vs lapce!

[@brian.cooper]

Haven't seen lapce before you mentioned it, looks cool! Do you have any thoughts? I'll give it a shot

[@elpresidank1977]

Yeetin Beetin Teetin!

[@Joey-dj4cd]

ubuntu ?

[@xtiooplus]

zed-AI is amazing (and free now)

[@DonaldCooper-l6g]

Lewis Larry Wilson Sandra Johnson Dorothy

[@pagenotfound_code_404]

built-in git pilot & ai support is kinda cringe ngl

[@SirJagerYT]

nothing beats neovim

[@robrob8936]

lame

[@da40au40]

Overrated editor

[@otockian]

Zed has to be the dumbest thing I've ever seen if I am being honest.