(14-03-2020, 09:00 PM)z3bra Wrote: I'm digging back this thread

I've had a similar epiphany. Since writing about the topic, digging into UX/UI, and anything rotating around it, I've taken a different approach to computing.

A book I've recently read goes a long way in explaining it, it's called the design of everyday things. It's premise is that if you're not able to use a tool don't blame yourself, blame the tool. Another one is about asking yourself why would you have to learn different behavior to do the same thing with different tools.

So, with this in mind, I've settled on a vanilla reproducible setup that has the less friction possible between me wanting to do something and it happening. I got a text file with the list of everything that was every installed and customized on the system, a script to rebuild the symbolic links for configurations if ever needed. And that's mostly it.

I've taken to heart the habit of questioning a tool once I experience a discrepancy or lag between what I want to do and what's actually going on.

There's a similar exercise I do with my programming environment IDEs called a Code Kata.