1 is nixos

and 8 does not exist so nan:P

How do you spell ed with five letters? smh
- How do you spell Writing out bytes on a hard drive platter by carefully using a needle and a magnet with five letters? smh my head*
- Gedit
Almost got it, it’s

nano
- nvim
They could possibly mean neovim. They appear to have spelled it wrong, though.
- vim was a mistake. Go back to vi.
  ...but modernizing it is still a good idea, so I present to you: neovi
  
  (No, I'm not serious)
- does not fit though
  
  luckily we vim fanatics do not have to worry, through the power of wordle solver, we can use exits instead lol
- Helix?
emacs[esc]:wq

Better than vim

I’m done here, this crossword is bullshit

The answer has got to be helix ;)
- We’re not friends anymore.
- no, it should be kakoune :P
neovim?
- I don't think about neovim being separate to vim, sorry.
- I’ll allow it.
I was expecting a 'better than emacs' clue to go along with this one.
It seems like only one side of the ancient rivalry is represented in the comments here. No worries, I'm right there with you.

I think there's a mistake, I can't fit "neovim" into 8 across.

And "nothing" does not fit, either.

You need a spell checker friend.

Pretty confident in my solve. The only ones I didn't get myself were 20-down, 29-down (obvious in retrospect), and 21-across (inferred the word, but didn't know the tool).

spoiler

        N I X O S
        O     P   K     C P
G T K   O     E M A C S   R
N   D E B I A N   L   C L I
O N E     T   S   I   R   N
M         H   U     M I N T
E D I T O R   S       P     H
  O       E L E M E N T A R Y
  N U C L E I     A   I     P
L G     S   N     G E N D E R
  L S       U     L   G     L
  E         X F C E         A
L S       P     E   L       N
S       Z O R I N O S     C D
          P     T

I don't think your spoiler tag worked.
- Voyager Displays it correctly.
- Rendered for me fine on Jerboa
- Boost For Lemmy is not rendering spoiler tag
- Are you using Sync? It never got the memo that Lemmy spoiler tags don't work the same way as Reddit ones and famously displays them improperly
You can imagine my face reading the response of 15 lol I thought it was going to be a specific program hahaha I had a lot of fun with it and there were just a few I missed so I would love to see more like these in the future :)

I wonder if anyone ever made a crossword that also works as a QR code

Today I learned that gnome has a crossword maker. Now I need to play with it too!

So... Anybody smarter than me know that 24 across is. I thought something like showering/bathing because supposedly people don't like to shower/cleanup as cons but neither seem to fit. Then I thought friends but that doesn't make sense either. So I got nothing.

Edit: Remove the ING from showering and it fits. Gotta check the connected ones to see if it works, though, assuming I get those right.

Edit Edit: I absolutely hate the "Best WM (Wayland) one because that is too subjective to be able to be answered correctly, if you ask me.

I get G _ N _ _ R there.

I'm not 100% confident about the G but the other two I'm positive of. It's not SHOWER but I have no idea what it is
Best WM (Wayland) shoud be Hyprland, it's exact length and fits with 18 and 32.
Someone else said it.

24 across is

GENDER
- I must have missed that comment.

why are there so many List Files... ? Also 31 doesn't fit.

All those Distro Questions (29, 18, 27) are missing 2 spaces (OS is part of their name)

19 down - WinNT

Proof

LOL

Neither Vanilla OS nor Silverblue fit

I dont get it.

RTFM!!
- Confused man it sounds

I have no idea what 9 and 24 are, and at this point i don't know if i care anymore

I don't know 24, but 9 is:

solution to 9 down

scripting
- Someone else said it. I never would've gotten this myself but now that I see it it makes sense.
  
  24 across is
  
  GENDER
- Thank you, now i feel a bit dumb but i can rest in peace

I got all of them but three.

I had to google to figure out

nuclei and eagle mode existed

I still cannot figure out 24 across.

Nice. I solved 22 (with 2 of them being unsure), there's 12 I don't know. I can only assume the multiple listings of 'List files in current directory' is a deliberate joke because you use it so much, but somehow it doesn't feel right.

You should find a website to share it where people can play it interactively! I'm sure such websites are out there, it's too obvious.

i got as far as this

Thanks for this, it actually was a lot of fun to try and complete it! 😀

Linux

Please moar of this!!!!