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0 pointsbenj1112y ago0 comments

My journey into Linux was like this.

I decided to install arch once. Didn't have any issues per se, but spent far too much time going through all the window manager options, file browser options etc etc etc.

I eventually decided that I needed an os to do stuff, not be the stuff to do.

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epiccoleman2y ago

This mirrors my experience with emacs. I enjoyed tinkering with it but found I'd lose 30 minutes every time I thought "I bet I can make it do..."

Nowadays I'm using Code with the Vim plugin and I haven't tinkered with my config for quite some time.

Emacs is infinitely more powerful - but with Code I was able to set it up once and be done, and there's value in that too.

omnibrain2y ago

That (and the at the time, in my personal opinion, superior to anything else Office 2010 with the improved tabbed interface) was the reason I went back to Windows. Nowadays most of the time I don't even bother to change the color scheme an set a background image.

I just recently started to customise my Powershell profile. Let's see where this leads...

benj111OP2y ago

I'm still on Linux.

I just use a premade Debian rather that selecting every single tiny piece.

If I need to change things I can, I just don't feel I have to change everything.

crashmat2y ago

I think it depends on whether you can do stuff in the os even if it is not yet set up exactly perfectly. If so, then you can do stuff when you need to, and play with the os when you want to. But obviously some will be too distracted from doing anything such that that's still a bad idea.

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