I dunno… I am utilitarian about my setup. The simple fact that I set up and use a whole new environment for each project or job means I would end up wasting hundreds of hours in the initial “set up” phase of things. If a setting annoys me, I will hunt it down, and kill it. But generally I let the fine folks that maintain the distributions make decisions for me, as I am usually using a distro that is built and maintained by people like me.
I mean, I will swap out a background, drop the GUI to dark mode, and do a bit of moving for UI elements. But I keep this configuring at an all time low. Hell, I would say 90% of the Linux boxes I use are pure CLI/terminal. So… fancy text colors? I dunno.
Now, all that said, if you get a good config going, I know how awesome it can be to have everything in the “right” place, so if it helps productivity, go for it.
agreed…also this is kinda addictive… excess doing can lead to time wastage that i have faced…and now i can control but tbh things like gnome kde and xfce or even mate seems weird and dont feel like using it or keeping it my sys…cause now its like a habbit for me.
‘This’ is always dependent on individuals, as just proff said
and as per wother,
and if it is just pre-cofiguredwith somde DE,
All that i do the same too… It is just that some people have time and patience to invest in ricing and some like us prefer pre-configured, but that doesnt mean i live with the stock, but i do the customizations to make the de impress myself and ofcourse minimal to an extent!
And if in case of ricing, i ssly can’t bcoz in KDE i most probably take 1 to 2 hours MAX to bring MY fav look that i have been set to since some past 6-7months, and no matter which DE am almost into converting that same as that of my fav look. BUT for ricing it will literally take too long comparitively and We don’t have that patience nor I can consider it as worth of the effort compartive to DEs
yeah things get set according to time… like when i need somethig i just set only when i need it
I remember this method made me realise how many features were just waste i never used them so yeah that’s what i feel
Once touchpad gestures were important for me… now i love keyboard shortcuts creating custom ones and playing is what i love now thus never needed to set gestures which i would do at the time of “ricing”
What I actually mean is just set the thing in 10 mins and start working as you continue working the features you miss / want just set them at that instant … I follow this startegy now, coz i have “riced” my system 11 times in 28 hrs and reinstalling blah blah each time i fucked up the sys so yeah now am good.