Having heard good things about Linux and being a long time lurker of Reddit's r/unixporn
Stopped reading at this point. Nothing wrong with tinkering with your GUI, but my priorities differ.
Stopped reading at this point. Nothing wrong with tinkering with your GUI, but my priorities differ.
PS: I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't read. Just trying to understand what you meant.
- it has a basic window manager (half screen left/right, full screen)
- it has emacs
- it has Firefox
- it has tmux
- (if the computer is really fancy) it has a calendar application
Back to square one.
Everyone has a work flow. It can be simple or complex, self-made or partly-compulsory. Some will try to always use better tools, other will try to keep the plainest environment. I believe it's a good practice to at least know what other people can do.
It took me many years to discover and build an environment where I feel confortable and productive. I spend many days working for this, but now it has hardly changed in 5 years. I think that time was an excellent investment.
Maybe you mixed up "tinkering" for workflow improvement with "tinkering" for the sake of it.
The advantage of GNU/Linux here is that once you nail it, you never have to change it again. Your OS will outlive your hardware; you simply transplant it, together with your workflow.