they either don't improve upon or add functionality that's not available, or simply add eye candy. Gaining pretty colors is nice, but not worth losing familiarity with ubiquitous tools.
The thing I like about a lot of these is that I don't lose familiarity with existing tools. When I end up on a cluster that doesn't have them, I'm a bit annoyed, but I can still operate just fine.
The principle exception to this is actually fd
- I now find find
(har!) almost unusable without having a man page open in a separate terminal. But that's because fd
is so much more ergonomic and powerful, I would never give it up unless forced.
Upgrading/tinkering doesn't void your warranty. Explicitly.
And their customer service is top notch. I thought I bricked my gazelle when I upgraded the memory, but their customer service walked me through how to fix it - didn't even bat an eye.