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I wonder about linux.

After playing computer games, why is mouse and keyboard customization so vanilla?

It would be really nice if they keyboard and mouse could be highly integrated with the window manager and apps.

I mean as a first-class function, not sparsely populated keyboard/mouse settings, or some external utility.

Coming from infra / system, most people I work with are the kind that use Linux both at work and at home. Of course, my selection is biased... but, those Linux users I met don't like fancy DEs. The less functionality a DE has -- the better. And, frankly, if Web wasn't so unnecessarily complex and so tied to just two programs that only come in GUI, I wouldn't even run a DE. And so would a lot of people I know.

Also seeing how every bit of Linux configuration sucks, has layers of nonsense and brokenness... I just don't want another utility that screws up with my input devices. It's painful already as it is.

There have been some interesting experiments in this regard, like the Plan 9 operating system (Built by Rob Pike and Ken Thompson).

For example here is a tour of the Acme Text Editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

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