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For reference, I spend a lot of time at the shell, and despite having previously tuned zsh dotfiles, I now just use default bash. The only change I make is to
by eeh 6y ago
For reference, I spend a lot of time at the shell, and despite having previously tuned zsh dotfiles, I now just use default bash.
The only change I make is to source fzf's setup file.
- catherd 6y agoThe only way to win at dotfiles is not to play. Fresh out of college all my peers were using fancy 3D mice with programmable buttons for mechanical modeling and one older engineer was just dragging his finger around on the laptop trackpad. It was painful to watch. Over 15 years later I realize that old guy knew what he was doing. Learning to deal with the defaults lets you drop into any standard install and go, whether that's for 3D modeling or Linux software. Unless you just love constant fiddling with custom config then having it all rot away in the next upgrade or hardware change there are much more productive uses of time.
- ravenide 6y agoI don’t understand this mentality tbh. Why do you need the ability to drop into any standard install and go? Don’t you use one computer as your main machine?
- eeh 6y agoI use: * personal laptop * work laptop * work desktop * work remote desktops * a bunch of servers Those machines are on different versions of different distros, and thus have different software available, and when the same package name is available, it's occasionally different versions. Work provides a set of customisations, additionally. Every customisation is yet another dimension in the cartesian product of config space, making installation, upgrades and debugging costlier. I used to think customisation paid off, but I no longer do.
- eeh 6y agoTo clarify, I never consciously make this conclusion. Over the years I've just removed more config than added, until the point I have ~nothing.