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I spend maybe 5 minutes a day moving windows around. Not a lot of room to optimize. The meme whenever dev productivity comes up is this picture of Jeff Dean —

I spend maybe 5 minutes a day moving windows around. Not a lot of room to optimize. The meme whenever dev productivity comes up is this picture of Jeff Dean — arguably one of the most productive programmers of all time — on a single monitor in a default Ubuntu environment: https://twitter.com/nufuau/status/1159007803316396038?s=20 https://twitter.com/nufuau/status/1159007803316396038?s=20 I used to use esoteric dev environments but I think the net effect was negative on my productivity due to things breaking. Also, being comfortable in default environments means that you are better able to move between environments without a large productivity hit.

bravetraveler 3y ago
That's fair - no two people work alike. It's a net catching my inefficiency :D I'm curious about the depths you've gone, to have breakage. I've found it isn't really common, but I'm pretty much just assigning 'class=SomethingSpecific' to always go to SomeWorkspace Not really a big investment, isn't fragile, and saves me a few minutes of annoyance every day - setting up everything split/etc It's also worth mentioning cognitive load - I never have to look/wonder. It's like those old machines where you could keep typing when it's all hosed up, knowing it'll catch up Being able to move around is a decent point. Though again - we all differ. I haven't used a machine that's not my personal one in at least a decade. If I did have to restore it, it's a git clone/curl/wget away - plus the packages :P