My experience in the last few years has been the opposite. I've recently found that my stubbornness has resulted in me investing in alternative solutions to my

My experience in the last few years has been the opposite. I've recently found that my stubbornness has resulted in me investing in alternative solutions to my problems that are hand-tailored to exactly what I want. Some examples: - I take notes profusely, but I'm dissatisfied with every note taking app. I have rigged up Typora (a Markdown editor) to an Alfred workflow to build exactly the solution that I want. I guess Alfred is the "saving grace" here. - I can't find a good podcasting app (I want to listen on my Mac, not on my phone). Eventually I just settled on The Old Reader subscribing to the podcast RSS and download the files manually to play in VLC. Works great, if you don't want a seamless UI. - I, like I'm guessing everyone in this thread, have a very customized terminal shell. The customization environment here is thriving more than ever before and doesn't show signs of being trampled by any integrated solution. What's the common thread? GUIs. GUIs are hard to make customizable, and the returns on doing so rapidly diminish with the number of non-power-users. If you discount GUIs, there's tons of customization to be had on your computer right now.