tl;dr - reinventing the wheel is the only way to build a better wheel :) Seriously though - I have used some of these in the past (settling however on Mint, wh

tl;dr - reinventing the wheel is the only way to build a better wheel :) Seriously though - I have used some of these in the past (settling however on Mint, which is not open-source in its common sense), none were perfect. I am a programmer, not a sysadmin, and it is more interesting for me to write something than to mess with package dependencies, default installation paths and what not. Digging through someone else's code and trying to bend it to my needs is not the best pastime either. On the other hand, writing analytics from scratch gives a chance to build exactly what I need, especially when it comes to the reporting function and the UI. In fact, in the UI/UX department I am pretty sure I can do better than existing O/S packages.