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Not op but I’ve got 25 years of daily computer use under me. I’m tired of having to read manuals and try to figure out the latest popular app. Software should b

Not op but I’ve got 25 years of daily computer use under me. I’m tired of having to read manuals and try to figure out the latest popular app. Software should be better these days, more intuitive to use, more interoperability between applications, data should be even more portable. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy learning apps anymore, I just have to guard my time more wisely.

nurettin 4y ago
Congratulations on the daily use. I think the point of this article is exactly the opposite of having to read new things every day. It is to read the old things once with the insinuation that the skill will translate to other things as well.
- trashtester 4y ago
  I've used Emacs for 30 years, and still do. I know enough keybindings to get by. Under the hood, everything I do is Linux. I love i3wm and Pop Shell. My main rig uses Linux as the base os (which is mostly used as a hypervisor, for security reasons). Still, as front-end, I find myself mostly working through Windows VM's, on top of KVM. I pass through most of the hardware (usb controller, the main GPU), and get a native windows experience. Most work happens through Chrome, VS Code and Windows Termnal. I use PowerToys to get some kind of tiling window manager. There are two reasons for this. One is that my workplace has security setups for Windows and Mac, but not linux. I can grant them full control over the VM I use for work, and can use the standard setup for vpn, etc, as well as ability to use all corporate resources with no pain or hacks. The other is that a lot of things are more painless. Working across multiple monitors requires less setup, scaling 4k "just works", most hardware and front-end software I use behave as-well or better than on linux (particularly webcam + Teams, that I depend on heavily). Also, as editor, I still use emacs for some things, when I just want to edit some file in a random directory. But for development work, I've switched to VS code. The ability to ssh into any remote VM, container, etc, and be able to work directly on a remote server, complete with gitlens, debuggers, file browsers, shell access, etc, is a killer app for me. I also love the pane management, which provides the tiling window manager functionality I love from i3/Pop Shell. (Power Toys is ok, but not quite as efficient for me as i3.) Emacs CAN be set up to do those things, but that takes more effort, I feel, and still not the same user experience.
  - retrocryptid 4y ago
    +1. I use emacs as my daily driver. Plus some tools I wrote myself to evaluate C# and JavaScript. Every now and again I hop over to a jetbrains tool. I was slightly disappointed by i3 and xmonad and built my own WM in lisp. In the old days we used to write our own tools by extending and combining existing tools. Now people seem to just download python and use whatever library comes with it after a day or two of experimentation
retrocryptid 4y ago
Or you could read the manual for one app and use it for a long time.

nurettin 4y ago

Congratulations on the daily use. I think the point of this article is exactly the opposite of having to read new things every day. It is to read the old things once with the insinuation that the skill will translate to other things as well.

trashtester 4y ago
I've used Emacs for 30 years, and still do. I know enough keybindings to get by. Under the hood, everything I do is Linux. I love i3wm and Pop Shell. My main rig uses Linux as the base os (which is mostly used as a hypervisor, for security reasons). Still, as front-end, I find myself mostly working through Windows VM's, on top of KVM. I pass through most of the hardware (usb controller, the main GPU), and get a native windows experience. Most work happens through Chrome, VS Code and Windows Termnal. I use PowerToys to get some kind of tiling window manager. There are two reasons for this. One is that my workplace has security setups for Windows and Mac, but not linux. I can grant them full control over the VM I use for work, and can use the standard setup for vpn, etc, as well as ability to use all corporate resources with no pain or hacks. The other is that a lot of things are more painless. Working across multiple monitors requires less setup, scaling 4k "just works", most hardware and front-end software I use behave as-well or better than on linux (particularly webcam + Teams, that I depend on heavily). Also, as editor, I still use emacs for some things, when I just want to edit some file in a random directory. But for development work, I've switched to VS code. The ability to ssh into any remote VM, container, etc, and be able to work directly on a remote server, complete with gitlens, debuggers, file browsers, shell access, etc, is a killer app for me. I also love the pane management, which provides the tiling window manager functionality I love from i3/Pop Shell. (Power Toys is ok, but not quite as efficient for me as i3.) Emacs CAN be set up to do those things, but that takes more effort, I feel, and still not the same user experience.
- retrocryptid 4y ago
  +1. I use emacs as my daily driver. Plus some tools I wrote myself to evaluate C# and JavaScript. Every now and again I hop over to a jetbrains tool. I was slightly disappointed by i3 and xmonad and built my own WM in lisp. In the old days we used to write our own tools by extending and combining existing tools. Now people seem to just download python and use whatever library comes with it after a day or two of experimentation

retrocryptid 4y ago

Or you could read the manual for one app and use it for a long time.