Oh it is, when I was in uni I had the time of my life with arch, now once I’m working, married and juggling few other interests and suddenly, I have so little time to actually build exactly the way I like it in arch, and I’ve resorted to picking a just works distro on my machines. And I feel the learning curve had also flattened out for me, more effort I put now, less I learn. So I understand even enthusiasts at some point in life may choose to just go the less work route.
It’s fun for a while, but when you’re a few years, or decades in, you don’t want to dick around with your OS, you just want to use it and mostly forget about it.
Yes, writing modelines for X was (kind of) fun. I don’t miss it though.
Yeah, but customising is fun and a great learning experience
Its fun to do once or twice, then I went right back to Endeavour lol
I used to spend hours compiling my Slackware kernel to contain only the things I needed.
It was a lot of wasted hours…
Oh it is, when I was in uni I had the time of my life with arch, now once I’m working, married and juggling few other interests and suddenly, I have so little time to actually build exactly the way I like it in arch, and I’ve resorted to picking a just works distro on my machines. And I feel the learning curve had also flattened out for me, more effort I put now, less I learn. So I understand even enthusiasts at some point in life may choose to just go the less work route.
It’s fun for a while, but when you’re a few years, or decades in, you don’t want to dick around with your OS, you just want to use it and mostly forget about it.
Yes, writing modelines for X was (kind of) fun. I don’t miss it though.