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> reading through the documentation and putting your distro together gives you way more insight into the inner workings which is invaluable for when it breaks.
by stephen 3y ago
> reading through the documentation and putting your distro together gives you way more insight into the inner workings which is invaluable for when it breaks.
I definitely feel that way about the core libraries/frameworks I'm building my applications/codebases on top of, so can relate!
But for my WM/desktop, I'm pretty happy to a) not know it's innermost workings, and b) just have it not break in the first place! :-)
I guess we can each have our own yak-shaving preferences. :-)
- gchamonlive 3y agoI was exactly like that until kde decided it knew what was best for me and killed all the kwin scripts I relied upon with plasma 6 :( But yeah! We can't know everything, it is very important to consciously decide what to be ignorant about. What is relevant to me might not be relevant to you and that is the beauty of it. If everyone got interested in the exact same thing, just imagine the chaos.