On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 07:06:12PM +0300, Nikita Krasnov wrote: > Just bear with me on this one, this is not a bait or a troll, I promise. I > genuinely fell very confused. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Such minimalism just seems unpractical to me. Maybe I have the wrong mindset > when it comes to these things. >
> 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 Why? > 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? > > -- > Nikita > -- Kind regards, Hiltjo