Are you:
1. Sick and tired of dealing with the corporate web and the ever-expanding exploitation and complexity that only ever seems to serve commercial interests while ruining everything else, and
2. Someone who *does not* subscribe to the fascism-adjacent "we must return to the bare minimum with no abstractions" ideology of pseudo-simplicity?

Then I have a question for you: what would the 'ideal' system or environment look like, that lets you enjoy tinkering with computers again?

(Only respond if you match *both* points please)

@joepie91 Some things that come to mind:

Smooth learning curves. It's nice to be able to pick up a tool or software (or anything really) and start using it right away with a minimum set of functionality. More advanced features can be gradually discovered and stacked on top of existing knowledge. Such software should not put up barriers to prevent me to know more, but a kind of hint like "you do not need to know more than this to just use it" would be neat.

@joepie91 Another thing would be (open!) standardization and interoperability. If two things are kind-of similar, it should be possible to have them working together without bending time and space.

@joepie91 Software people could benefit from the concept of "Kill Your Darlings". I'm sure I am twisting the meaning of this proverb here, but so often software problems are fixed by writing more software. I feel like some of the software out there needs to serve some kind of Perrsonal Branding or career goal of the author where it has to hoard stars on GitHub to make them seem successful.

@joepie91
I think that is wrong and it adds to the total burden of all software in the world that needs maintenance.

The concept of killing off your projects because something else does it better and then motivating users to that substitute should be more accepted imho.

Each solution imposes its own standards with which other software and users have to be compatible. Recognizing redundancy eliminates such a standard and strengthens the others.

@joepie91 Ending my braindump here. I hope I made some sense :)