> 1. With enough time and effort I can make it do whatever I want it to do (that can be done).
I did this when I was younger. Now I have more money than time, so I'm prepared to pay to spend less time making stuff do what I want it to do.
> It also means I don't have to do things the Apple way, I can make it work the way I want it to work (within reason).
I used to fine-tune my system with the weirdest shit, every corner of the screen did a different thing, all 3 buttons did different things to windows depending on where you clicked.
Now I just use macOS pretty much vanilla out of the box. If I use Linux, I just use the defaults.
Copying over settings to multiple computers is just way too much bike-shedding for me.
Regarding copying over settings between macOS and Linux, powerusers usually maintain their own dotfiles and it's not a problem to make it somewhat OS-agnostic, so you can set up a similar environment within minutes.
"Bikeshedding, also known as Parkinson's law of triviality, describes our tendency to devote a disproportionate amount of our time to menial and trivial matters while leaving important matters unattended."
ie. spending way too much time configuring your working environment vs actually working.
I did this when I was younger. Now I have more money than time, so I'm prepared to pay to spend less time making stuff do what I want it to do.
> It also means I don't have to do things the Apple way, I can make it work the way I want it to work (within reason).
I used to fine-tune my system with the weirdest shit, every corner of the screen did a different thing, all 3 buttons did different things to windows depending on where you clicked.
Now I just use macOS pretty much vanilla out of the box. If I use Linux, I just use the defaults.
Copying over settings to multiple computers is just way too much bike-shedding for me.