When I was younger, I was into "minimalism" - I would spend hours writing up i3/vim/emacs configs to make things look minimalistic and strip out dependencies e.

When I was younger, I was into "minimalism" - I would spend hours writing up i3/vim/emacs configs to make things look minimalistic and strip out dependencies e.g. getting things to work without using a DM or DE with some fancy bashrcs, writing my own programs for volume/brightness controls. Now I minimize my time wasted tweaking things that don't matter. I just use Fedora (stock with Gnome 3) with about 20 combined LOC for vimrc, emacs configs, and bashrcs. I embrace the defaults.