Others, like myself, have done already enough tinkering during our university days and now rather focus on get stuff done.
Our lives, especially with that high work-load we still have to cope with, don't allow us to choose many things to do when not working.
If you have family with kids you loose every tiny bit of freedom to "waste your time" on tinkering and get easily annoyed when things just don't work out of the box.
I like the possibility to customize everything on linux but I also hate how the linux world can't provide the standardization and clarity I am used to from OSX.
How on earth is there still no terminal emulator like iTerm2 on linux????!
From linux I miss the possibility to customize everything on OSX. I hate it how Apple allways tries to lock me into it's golden cage and imposes it's way of thinking on me.
In 80% of times I can totally agree with the apple way but there is 20% when I could throw that MBP against the wall with full force.
Ok I didn't want to start some OSX vs. Linux debate here it's just an example to show the love-hate relationship to both.
It's great there is some effort put into connecting these worlds. The way our economy works is the reason we don't have the computers and OSes we really want to have and sadly only the open source world will change this.
> How on earth is there still no terminal emulator like iTerm2 on linux????!
Example, I don't know about a terminal on linux that both works as a drop down terminal (quake-like) & supports inline images.
Or split screen & password manager.
That was the REPL of non-UNIX graphical workstations of uore, and inline images was naturally part of it.
* User accessible features like the tmux integration (look at this: https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html)
Just to mention a few advantages.
Of course most of the awesome apps like tmux just need you to learn a bunch of new commands but I can't imagine myself doing that a lot over my whole lifetime.
Some things I just want to use without a steep learning curve and apps like iTerm2 prove that this is possible.
I use the shell a lot since many years but I'm far from using it the way I could imagine it in the 21st century (the shell is still the superior interface for computers in my opinion but I'm afraid this topic didn't really get much attention & innovative approaches in the last decades).