I have analysed this a while ago, so I would point you to this nice article by me.
https://humaaraartha.in/sagar/trusting_no_one.html
Thanking you
Sagar Acharya
https://humaaraartha.in
4 Jul 2023, 21:36 by nikita.nikita.krasnov_AT_gmail.com:
> Just bear with me on this one, this is not a bait or a troll, I promise. I genuinely fell very confused.
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> What would be the point of using minimalist software if bloated and excessively complex programs completely satisfy all my needs? I am not the kind of person that works directly with hardware, but it's not like I use my system only as a bootloader for a web browser either. It's just that my current workflow feels pretty complete to me.
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> Take LaTeX, for example. I do all of my LaTeX in TeXstudio and, frankly, I'm satisfied with it. Autocompletion is there by default and there are many shortcuts that I don't need to set up myself. I simply use the all of this.
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> You could say that TeXstudio is pretty bloated and isn't that flexible in terms of configuring and using it in conjunction with other applications. And you'd be right. But if I'll try to use more minimalist software like Neovim I would spend an endless amount of time configuring and patching all the features I now take for granted. And even if I succeed, there will certainly be a time when I would need some feature I haven't thought of in advance (a need to use a debugger inside Nvim, idk) and I would have to either avoid this feature for the time being or abandon anything I am currently doing and try to search information on how to integrate this thing into my system and into my workflow.
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> If I had used one of the bloated programs I probably could have found a solution in one of the menus after reading few Stack Overflow answers. But with Neovim I'd have to first find the program that would be suitable for what I try to achieve, then I'd have to read many lines or pages of documentation, after that I'd have to implement that thing and only then I'd be able to use the thing.
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> Such minimalism just seems unpractical to me. Maybe I have the wrong mindset when it comes to these things.
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> I do love using more niche and minimalist programs. I like when things are small, simple and understandable. I really like C over C++, Rust or anything else exactly for that reason. It's just makes computers fun, comfortable and cute (idk how else to describe it). But am not fond of endlessly configuring these things before they become even semi-practical. I really don't know what to think about all of this. What do you have to say about this?
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> Nikita
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Received on Tue Jul 04 2023 - 20:22:40 CEST