I don't think most people want to customize their software based on how many years of the Linux desktop there has been.
I once heard an anecdote that being a welder makes you look at metal objects differently than non-welders. What a non-welder sees as rigid and inflexible a welder sees as able to be changed.
I think the view of software for programmers vs. non-programmers is similar.
Having said that, just as most people don't see the benefit to being a welder, most people aren't going to suddenly see the benefit of being a programmer.
Was it this one?
“One of the unexpected things about watching the steel guys work is how the solidity of metal means nothing to them. Most people think of metal as something hard and inflexible, but welders don't. Which should be obvious in hindsight, I guess. But, for example, they have these saw-horses that are made of tube steel. And I can see how that came about: they needed some saw-horses; they had some steel. It took them 30 seconds to make them. And, an example with the stairs: the legs of the stairs' landing platform have big threaded bolts for feet, to fine-tune the height of the legs for levelling. And there are these steel tube sleeves that go around the legs, that drop down and cover the bolts. So when they were moving this platform in, they had to flip it over, and they didn't want the sleeves to fall off while they did this. Now to me, that job calls for duct tape. To them: they welded the sleeves in place, then de-welded them when they needed them to move again.”
Absolutely. I tried to search-engine it when I posted and couldn't come up with it. Your search-engine skills are superior!
This is a case where I wish for a personal archiving tool to scoop-up and index everything I read on the web (and everything write, for that matter). I know there are projects out there to do that. I really should look into one. I always get hung-up in perfect being the enemy of the good and don't do anything.
The Microsoft Recall product sounded vaguely interesting, albeit I'd want a local-only version.
I've also wondered if accessibility interfaces for screen readers could be used for bulk capture of on-screen data for scraping into this mythical index. That would make the index application independent, since the text is being captured at a different "layer".