[kzrdude]

Thanks a lot. Maybe I'm starting to see what you are talking about. I have setup a working (?) lazyvim. Let's see where it goes. Some frustrations had to be overcome, most of them turning off unwanted functionality like autopairing parantheses, for example.. The custom notifications/popups also had to be disabled for now since they have some problems (cursor vanishes in light terminal? Important command outputs are only visible for a few seconds?).

[cbushko]

I disabled the checker on startup because that dialog was annoying me.

In /config/lazy.lua:

  checker = { enabled = false }, -- automatically check for plugin updates

I've never had a problem with the things you mentioned but the notifications are using either noice or notify. I think the submenu is <leader>sna