It always seemed as something people do for a cool tech project or bragging rights, not to maintain it as a daily driver. Sort of like building and running arch

It always seemed as something people do for a cool tech project or bragging rights, not to maintain it as a daily driver. Sort of like building and running arch linux from source. Sure, there are people who daily drive it really well...but it still definitely seemed to be more of a cool project akin to getting Doom or Doom variants running on toasters, fridge televisions, etc.