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  • I’m an Emacs graybeard, so complex keybindings don’t scare me. My problem with ncmpcpp is twofold:

    1. It relies on MPD which is always a PITA to properly configure. Pulseaudio always managed to make it not work on a fresh system. Hopefully with Pipewire it’ll be better.
    2. The config format make no sense whatsoever. Especially the one with keybindings. It’s so cryptic I just stopped trying to understand it. Again, I’m an Emacs graybeard, to stress it as a point of reference.



  • I can see it working if one wants to customize the compilation flags of a few packages they have strong opinions on, but otherwise don’t care about the rest of the system. Sort of like the binary cache in NixOS, where by default you use the binary cache, but you can customize parts of your system triggering a source-based installation for that parts.



  • Even back in the day when I still used Windows (and GUI almost exclusively) I browsed my filesystems like I’d use a terminal with tab-completion. I’d press the first few letters of the file/directory I was looking for and press enter, rinse and repeat. I knew my file organization by heart anyway. It’s only natural for me to drop the GUIs for such use cases.