> Any time you sit down at a keyboard and have to mentally remap ("copy works differently here", "shortcuts are different here", "that thing you do all the time must be done in a very different way here"), it's mental capacity out the window.
That's true, which is why I use only Linux, only StumpWM, only emacs. Using anything else slows me down and gets in my way.
> The common user access standards that you're used to in VS, Eclipse and IDEA did. Spend your time mastering those instead, it will give far more transferable and valuable skills.
There's nothing to master, because the languages those tools offer aren't expressive enough to require any mastering. They're two steps above pointing and grunting, while emacs is poetry.
That's true, which is why I use only Linux, only StumpWM, only emacs. Using anything else slows me down and gets in my way.
> The common user access standards that you're used to in VS, Eclipse and IDEA did. Spend your time mastering those instead, it will give far more transferable and valuable skills.
There's nothing to master, because the languages those tools offer aren't expressive enough to require any mastering. They're two steps above pointing and grunting, while emacs is poetry.