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·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I totally agree with this point. I didn’t mean to advocate for no personalization, I think making a personal setup is crucial for having a usable work station, I don’t believe in one size fits all. it’s just that I have wasted an insane amount of time overdoing my customization, re doing it, and undoing it, and think that the article made some good points about how to prioritize what is worth customizing :)
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·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I think these tips all make a lot of sense in realms far beyond emacs. Anywhere tech debt creeps in… Other editors, Linux desktop configs, software build tool systems, and software development itself. There something alluring about tweaking a system to be customized in a “perfect” but personally way… but it often only bites you in time. the longer I work with computers the more I appreciate resisting unnecessary connivance tweets, and learn to live with the defaults :)

One of the most painful tweaks I have made is switching to a non qwerty keyboard layout… this basically forced me to reconfigure loads of software, which all just feels like a mess of unnecessary work and maintenance. Especially since I use vi like bindings wherever possible and all vi mode defaults are qwerty based. I often consider scraping it all and going back to qwerty, but I’m not sure if I’m ready to relearn basically all my muscle memory for all software again. So for now I try to keep things the way they are, and resist adding complexity when possible.