 Is there somewhere documentation of why specific programs were selected as defaults and which alternatives were rejected?
 I just encountered featherpad in a VM and it seems to be quite inferior to alternatives - I am curious is it reasonable to propose replacing it.
 I think part is dependencies and based only on qt stuff what other editors did you like better
 geany can show tabs/spaces and shows line number by default
 featherpad has no option to show tabs/spaces that I found, uses tabs in Python files intended with spaces and is not showing line number by default, even in code files
 (I switched to geany because I remember it from the first linux computer I used and is simpler to install than VSCodium)
 line numbers by default is in prefrences
 Yes, but at least I expect code editor to have it enabled by default. In the same way as I expect text to not be white on white background.
 I mean I find that a thing that could be done in packaging for lubuntu default settings if we really want to
 given that would only fix it on new installs
 Fortunately featherpad is a plain-text editor with syntax highlighting for some languages.
 It is also very easy to enable line numbers.
 And if this is not enough: open a bug report on the upstream project and it will be included automatically with the next packaged featherpad release.
 remind me: the last 32bit Lubuntu release was...?
 i believe it was the same time as Ubuntu dropped 32bit, no?
 18.10
 that's what I thought, thanks.
 people on Ask Ubuntu said "I thought a few flavors had official 32bit images as recently as 20.04" but they're not the smartest people nor authorities.  I could pull my Lubuntu Council hat out on 'em but I'm lazy
 and have enough things to worry about today first :P
 hahaha, no, the last one was 18.10, the first with lxqt and the last with 32 bits, the last with 32-bit support was 18.04 for being lts.