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by Ciantic 3813 days ago
Cause at certain age, all geeks go through their Window Blinds period, that's when they keep changing the windowing theme, maybe tweaking the shell. Many find it silly if not a buggy after a while, and years later wonder, why are people still doing this?
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I call this 'enlightenment', because I reached it after spending way too many hours in my teens tweaking my Enlightenment window manager config rather than doing something useful.
Never go full E17.
For editing code, I use a full-screen terminal with a wide left margin and transparency dimly showing a desktop picture. The large font I use is super awesome (Input Mono Narrow Thin) and it all looks gorgeous. It makes me happy every day, and it even inspires me to keep code clean. I may be shallow, but I don't enjoy working in drab environments like Eclipse with like Courier New and the default color theme. It makes me depressed.