[alex1115alex]

Surprised to see so much love for Kate here. I've always felt it has too much UI clutter for to make for a good Notepad.exe alternative, but too few features to be a good VSCode alternative. It seems most default KDE apps suffer from issues like this, to the point where I ended up using for VSCode for everything on my Linux machine (before eventually switching to MacOS and just using the Notes app for everything that isn't code).

[IIsi50MHz]

Fortunately, the UI is quite configurable. You can disable the left sidebar, the top toolbar, edit them, and so on. Document map is also optional. But yes, my initial impression was of more UI than expected.