[nicebyte]

yeah no. I've mainlined dwm + dmenu all the way back in 200x, I've written tons of makefiles and have the scars to prove it.

These days I'm off of this minimalism crap. it looks good on paper, but never survives collision with reality [1] (funny that this post is on hn front-page today as well!).

[1] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...

[snailmailstare]

I like these tools because they are minimalist.. I don't really care for the fact that they are C/make oriented and would rather help someone rewriting them in go or rust than show that I have a non minimal amount of scar tissue to work with a needlessly complicated past.

[nicebyte]

my comment isn't about things being written using c/make/whatever, it's precisely about the faulty assumption that complexity is needless.

[snailmailstare]

Oh then I totally disagree (or don't understand why you would need to see a psychoanalysis of a blacksmith to evaluate their offerings?). Many projects have places that need some complexity, configuration or advanced tools that doesn't imply the hardware store should stop selling average hammers or make you wade through an aisle of crap from providers like peloton to see if they better meet your needs.

(I.e. show me where in the article he replaced a standard tool like the hammer or pot with a complex one customized to exactly what he wanted to solve or explain why that advanced tool wouldn't suck given that there's a lot more details than one would expect.)

[skydhash]

I just went back to fedora+gnome on my PCs from FreeBSD+(tiling wm). I think minimalism is good when your workflow is very focused and you already know the requirements for your stack. But if you have unexpected workflows coming in everyday, the maintenance quickly becomes a burden. Gnome may not be perfect, but it's quite nice as a baseline for a working environment.

[yoyohello13]

Same. I ran dwm for a long time. These days I just run Gnome. You can make it work very similar to a tiling window manager, and all that random crap the world throws at you (printers, projectors, random other monitors, Java programs) "Just Work".