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Because perhaps you see an OS not as a hobby, but as a tool, and you may swim across other streams in life such that you feel your time is spent in better ways.
by antihero 7y ago
Because perhaps you see an OS not as a hobby, but as a tool, and you may swim across other streams in life such that you feel your time is spent in better ways.
For instance, I enjoyed being a janitor for my Arch Linux install for a while - it taught me a lot - but eventually I switched to MacOS because I actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably.
If you are putting your time into something, it makes some sense for it to be something you value.
- stepbeek 7y ago> actually wanted to ignore my OS and focus on the code I was writing and connecting to WiFi reliably I feel this. I was a distro-hopper for years. I eventually settled on just using Ubuntu LTS for ease but definitely benefited from the time I spent nurturing my arch laptop.
- antihero 7y agoYeah I much preferred Arch because every moving part was one I'd installed, so there was less mystery. However, still very annoying having to rearrange meetings because you did an upgrade and some X11 config needed to change and so you can't even boot a GUI for a bit.