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A little off topic, but I was wondering if you do away with any sort of GUI on your primary desktop and only use emacs, does that get you a distraction free environment?


The problem is that I would still need to read api documents, find solutions to issuse etc.


Exactly: even when there was no X windowing system installed on my Linux and the only browser I have access to was Lynx, I found myself using Lynx to procrastinate.

ADDED. Actually, the proper way to think about anti-procrastination is "willpower conservation", and not having a graphical browser installed or not having software on the computer that allows the watching of videos does conserve significant willpower when one is trying to get work done.


That is an excellent way to think of it.




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