I never said anything about not trying new tools, I'm talking about obsession, and it's become an addiction in some people. This is younger people than me AND

I never said anything about not trying new tools, I'm talking about obsession, and it's become an addiction in some people. This is younger people than me AND older people than me. To the point that they aren't USING the tools they are learning, just learning how to use it in such depth that they paralyze themselves. It's not just one tool, either, they'll learn all the tools out there, find ways to solve problems in 10-20 different ways, then not solve anything applied or practical. When it comes to debugging they are just paralyzed because they don't know how the programming language works, just the tool. It's perfectly fine if you are using the tool and have found a happy medium, which sounds like you have. You found a tool, you used it. You didn't spend years tweaking the tool, learning how to make it look pretty, then move on to another tool and bend that tool to basically be a clone of the first one you used. I never said anything about a "bare" setup. I'm saying you should find what works for you and use it. I shouldn't have to teach people who know how 900+ WMs/DEs/IDEs to work what a hosts file is, why setting 777 on every file to solve any problem is a bad idea, or how software licensing works, but I have to do it regularly and it causes clusters to crash, deadlines to be missed, and bills not to be paid because they're too busy customizing their fancy redundant solutions to problems they aren't solving. Or installing a big 10 server cluster to solve something that can be done in 10-20 lines of code on a laptop instead with an off the shelf product that costs $100,000/year for one task and then ditch the product entirely. I don't know why you took this personally... As for editors vs OS, yeah I mean you have an OS already installed, right? Why create an overlay that does the same thing? Emacs has a web browser in Lisp, why? elinks/lynx/wget/etc exist to do exactly that on the terminal if you have to do a terminal based solution (downloading ISOs on a server, for instance). Or even just use Firefox on your desktop rather than trying 900+ browsers and never concluding which one will work for you, constantly switching back and forth and back and forth... All I'm saying is use the tools. Customize it as needed, but don't become addicted to customization for customization's sake.