Many kudos to Linux for creating an awesome DOS 6.2, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase. Linux is hard to configure and set u

Many kudos to Linux for creating an awesome DOS 6.2, but I don't think it's a good investment of time for the HN userbase. Linux is hard to configure and set up, and hard to work with. I'd rather stick with Windows and have everything Just Work. Yeah, this comment is kind of like that. Most "modern" windowmanagers are much more about making the desktop pretty than making it usable. Me, I'm happily still running fvwm2 (though I use XMonad every once in a while), and not only does it not waste cycles on things I'm not looking at, it is configurable quickly and easily to an extent that the mainstream Gnome WMs have a hard time touching. XMonad takes that a step further by allowing configuration directly in Haskell (in my perfect world fvwm2 would use guile, but I'm not really complaining). When you want to improve your efficiency at repetitive tasks or basic interactions with your computer, dropping relatively simple "Just Work" solutions in favor of more flexible options makes complete sense. Arguing against a meager time investment to make your UI yours strikes me as rather wrongheaded.