100% this. my current activity is spread over half a dozen machines, and i create a new one for every dev project. i want to minimize the amount of setup i have

100% this. my current activity is spread over half a dozen machines, and i create a new one for every dev project. i want to minimize the amount of setup i have to do to get things working. this is also the reason why i learned VI. because at the time emacs was not available on all the unix systems i was working on, and it wasn't easy to install. if a tool is very good and it's available as a linux distribution package then i'll use it because i can rely on it being easy to install. but if that's not the case, more often than not it's not worth the effort.