> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done. The difficulty

> Now I just want something with minimal customisation with decent defaults so I know it won't suddenly break when I have to get some work done. The difficulty is that one persons "sensible default" is anothers "crazy terrible default". Particularly in the Linux world, fuelled by it being committed hobbyists who create much of the desktop software and the tradition of UNIX configurability.