[rbanffy]

I have been turning off the menu bar for quite some time because I get distracted easily and any content that's not necessary just gets in the way.

That said, you can always call it up as a pop-up menu.

[forgetfulness]

The menu bar is pretty good for discovery, you'll have to rely more on naming convention and documentation without it.

The toolbar is pretty fungible though, few modes do anything with it and the core functionality you get from the standard chords you find in the tutorial, little bang for the pixels.