I have officially retired from Emacs | Hacker News

A longtime Emacs user, Chris Wellons, says he has retired from Emacs and is moving to a simpler desktop stack.

He is phasing out tools like Openbox, Tridactyl, Xorg, xterm, Mutt, and his mail server, while switching to KDE on Wayland and a lighter browser.

Hacker News readers debated why he made the change, whether power-user setups still pay off, and if friction in these tools is a real issue.

The discussion also touched on how LLMs may be reshaping software choices and day-to-day workflows.