I did something different; I built my own config system that makes a PC account my own in about 20 minutes. My setup is effectively a program that needs to be i

I did something different; I built my own config system that makes a PC account my own in about 20 minutes. My setup is effectively a program that needs to be installed, and I maintain it in a git repo, and it comes packaged with an installer. I'm a software engineer; I build tools to solve problems. Emacs in particular is almost useless out of the box. But that's because of packages and modes; not because of key bindings and tweaks. That being said, if a tool doesn't need extensive customization or doesn't ship with a broken config, I'll learn the defaults. I barely tweaked tmux.conf - I turned on xterm-keys and set-titles. And I've certainly reduced the depth of my configuration as the breadth of tools I use has increased. And that's key: if most of my time is spent on one or two tools, it's well worth my time customizing those tools, because even fractional improvements will accumulate.