Oh, try running a Linux or BSD hypervisor and putting your desktop OS on that. Once you're decoupled from the hardware, you can start thinking about how you're

Oh, try running a Linux or BSD hypervisor and putting your desktop OS on that. Once you're decoupled from the hardware, you can start thinking about how you're going to backup or deploy your desktop configs (eg - Ansible) for your perfect WM or DE. It's a lot easier than it sounds once you do it, but you do have to take some time surmounting the initial barrier to entry, which is mostly reading. Remember, if you can click on it, it's probably just a wrapper around a documented utility that does the actual work. And if you can do basic webdev like HTML and CSS, you can customize your desktop through its configs.