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.kras...@gmail.com: > 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 > 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 >
