> Everything seems unnecessarily complex. This impulse to find a simpler land of software is what I relate to in the Suckless stuff, and Terry Davis' TempleOS.

> Everything seems unnecessarily complex. This impulse to find a simpler land of software is what I relate to in the Suckless stuff, and Terry Davis' TempleOS. What these have in common is a large degree of separation from "the industry." There is no commercial reward in following this impulse. But I think it marks a certain level of maturity as a person who is passionately into computers and software and thinks about them a lot. Computers aren't the problem. Software isn't the problem. The culture of people who write software is only part of the problem. The problem is "the industry." If you really can't stand the unnecessary bullshit anymore and aren't going to become a hermit on a mountain you probably should at least find other hobbies, if not change careers.