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by saalweachter 3189 days ago
There's a reason why so many programmers want to make new programming languages, text editors, and compilers :-)
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I too want to work in tooling. Sadly, we are just animals and want features faster rather than having a low memory footprint (don't know how I'd do it to be honest but I'm sure desktop apps should be leaner than they are now). I mean even gnome feels pretty bloated to be honest.

I think the problem is we are too accepting. We should put our foot down and say no. No to two clipboards on the same system. No to Eudora or whatever running in the background even though you haven't set up an email account with it. No to apps having ability to access the Internet or run at boot or run in background by default.

The problem is if I try to implement this, my best hope is to fracture everything further and realistically I will fail and have no users.