I feel like I’ll always have to make tweaks and it’ll never truly end. But I don’t say that in a bad way because I like learning and feel it’s akin to building my computer. Putting each piece together and doing the research into it helps me know better what went wrong when something breaks because I put it all together.
With the OS, because I am learning different parts of it and making all these changes, I learn so much. I have learned so much about package managers and how to use them and their flags in this in distro hopping.
But it’s no different than Windows because many of us were doing things to make the OS work for us and not against us like tweaks to use a local account or disable shit like Copilot in group policy.
Gnome with dash to dock is basically all I need unless I’m doing something specific.
Even when I was making htpc with KDE I started out customizing everything but eventually would reformat and only use a few minor tweaks. I went for like week long constant tweaking every time I used it to being able to set up an install and a few tweaks in less than an hour.
Yeah, doing unixporn stuff can be fun, but when I do them I never actually use them anymore. It’s just GNOME now. Just wish I could use custom cursors, since they’re fun. If I do a fresh install, though, it takes maybe 30m. Archinstall script + I have a local git repo that has a list of packages I have installed, plus an org file for various configs
I feel like I’ll always have to make tweaks and it’ll never truly end. But I don’t say that in a bad way because I like learning and feel it’s akin to building my computer. Putting each piece together and doing the research into it helps me know better what went wrong when something breaks because I put it all together.
With the OS, because I am learning different parts of it and making all these changes, I learn so much. I have learned so much about package managers and how to use them and their flags in this in distro hopping.
But it’s no different than Windows because many of us were doing things to make the OS work for us and not against us like tweaks to use a local account or disable shit like Copilot in group policy.
Ime over years… I stopped tweaking.
Gnome with dash to dock is basically all I need unless I’m doing something specific.
Even when I was making htpc with KDE I started out customizing everything but eventually would reformat and only use a few minor tweaks. I went for like week long constant tweaking every time I used it to being able to set up an install and a few tweaks in less than an hour.
Yeah same, this is not a very popular opinion here but I just like the default Ubuntu with some minor changes
Yeah, doing unixporn stuff can be fun, but when I do them I never actually use them anymore. It’s just GNOME now. Just wish I could use custom cursors, since they’re fun. If I do a fresh install, though, it takes maybe 30m. Archinstall script + I have a local git repo that has a list of packages I have installed, plus an org file for various configs