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I don't distrohop or tinker with my Linux install anymore. I just install Linux Mint XFCE edition and don't even bother changing the background.
20+ years ago i spent hours each day developing my own lcars interface based on enlightenment; now i just use whatever x-windows environment the distro i'm using at the moment defaults to.
we must be twins separated at birth. lol
Me too. But I stopped hopping ten years ago and settled down on Alpine, Void, or Gentoo, based on how fancy the hardware is, and the use case.
To me, the hopping part relates more to tinkering and fine-tuning. Today I prefer things just work. I wish no down time on all my devices and servers, because who has time to figure out why my photo doesn't sync to my NAS, or dig up that piece of paper when my password manager does not respond because of the proxy service is down?
Tech also just isn't advancing and changing as much as it was when we were younger so it's not as exciting anymore
And when it does change it's to enshittify it. It's been a decade since I was excited about any new technology. I used to love it too.
I don't think this is true.
It's not exciting to me any more because I hate the way it's changing the world.
In the 2010s it felt like tech would save us.
I think it is stagnating. people having more access to technology based gadgets but the only thing that changed is earth abuse to support production of gadgets. So not only is it not saving us, it is literally killing us.
I don't get that at all. To me it feels like there's so much progress happening right now.