[twalla]

I'm going to dissent - The smaller/fewer screens you have and the more default your config, the more important, mysterious and highly paid you are. The guy with the tiny macbook that never bothered to remove any of the dock programs their machine shipped with (bro, why do still have Contacts in your dock?) and still has the terminal (terminal, not iTerm) background color set to the retina-searing default white will 9 times out of 10 be the smartest, humblest mf in the room. 100 percent chance they will show you the most devastatingly elegant solutions to problems that stumped your whole team for a week.

[voidhorse]

This is 100% true in my experience and I can only guess it's because they spend their time solving actual problems and considering ideas rather than going down the config and personalization rabbit hole.

[deadbabe]

A counter argument: the people who spend most of their time doing nothing or playing with configs are that way because they finish their work very quickly and have loads of extra spare time.

[GuinansEyebrows]

an early colleague of mine was a guy who ran ratpoison for a fullscreen firefox window and did the rest of his work in the frame buffer. he had no time for, or interest in, any kind of aesthetic distraction, but he was one of the most insanely skilled and knowledgeable people (especially at his age) i've ever met to this day.

[chamomeal]

Absolutely 100% true.

Slightly different, but the most wizardly dev I know runs arch on 10 year old thinkpad. Uses the little nub mouse and everything.

He says stuff like “you can save a ton of memory if you don’t need file indexing”

[tough]

dockutil --remove all

https://github.com/kcrawford/dockutil