Re:The curse of being good in IT
by gumby on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:33PM
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> Every time people say that you need to first install 30 pluggins before you can use gnome I just think “uh no, you don’t. It works just fine out of the box.”
Emacs enthusiasts seem to be the same way: oh, it’s so configurable that let me recommend you do all these crazy things just to get started.
Default setup (absolutely no customization) works great for newbies right out of the box.
(And I say this as someone who’s been using emacs for over 45 years; it’s still my daily drive for editing, web browsing, mail reading… but a beginner doesn’t need to know any of that)
Emacs enthusiasts seem to be the same way: oh, it’s so configurable that let me recommend you do all these crazy things just to get started.
Default setup (absolutely no customization) works great for newbies right out of the box.
(And I say this as someone who’s been using emacs for over 45 years; it’s still my daily drive for editing, web browsing, mail reading… but a beginner doesn’t need to know any of that)