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by Zambyte 752 days ago
Funnily enough the main keyboard I use is a split, columnar, Dvorak board. I also use a lot of tools that people like to attach to their identity: SwayWM (tiling wm user), Lisp and Scheme (Lisper and Schemer), GNU/Linux... I do not see these at all as a part of my identity. I think making these a part of my creates an aversion to change, and therefore progress.

Historically I have even used distros that people heavily identify with and call "end game distros", like Arch Linux, Gentoo, and NixOS. The former two I used for years each. I eventually have landed on GNU Guix, since for me it has worked better than anything else I've tried for my needs.

I really mean it when I say we should identify with our tools less. You may consciously identify with tools that you want to solidify as a part of yourself even with the potential aversion to progress which that may include. I can't think of any tools I would do that for though.