Nobody individually spends too much time on dealing with them. It the global accumulation of man hours having to deal with them that is a travesty.

Find . -name ".DS_Store" | xargs rm

Forgive if it's not exact, I'm on a mobile device. But that should save you effort.

Right, I don't think anybody is saying it's an overburdening difficulty.

But it's still something, when I shouldn't have to do anything.

It's an extreme case of what is commonly called a "first world problem".

90% of the "problems" discussed on HN can be dismissed as "first world problems," but thanks for pointing it out.

A lot, maybe, but not 90%. I think most are valid engineering problems and questions

It should work. The other way to do this is:

      find . -name '.DS_Store' -delete

I'm in lust with xargs

I noticed the other day that .DS_Store was already ignored globally, but I don't remember ever telling Git to do that. Is this perhaps just something that OS X Git installer is doing by default now?

No it doesn't. I think the homebrew installer does it, but I'm not sure.