> I know this will be unpopular but I try to live a zero-config life.
Same. I pick a distro and desktop that needs minimal tweaking. My Firefox setup is synched down from Mozilla's cloud. I add a few extra apps, via the simplest possible way. I don't touch themes or even wallpapers.
I started my career in software tech support. In that line of work, you need to be able to drive the basic standard config of all the software you support. It's counterproductive to customise your own machine, because if you learn to lean on any tweaks, you are lost when you're on someone else's box and the tweaks are missing.
So, don't. Get proficient with the standards and defaults, even if you hate them. For instance I've been using Vi since 1988 and I still detest it... but I can do the basics I need with it, and it's always there.
The less tweaking you need to do, the better. If you need custom-installed apps, so be it, but install them and learn to use the defaults.
Same. I pick a distro and desktop that needs minimal tweaking. My Firefox setup is synched down from Mozilla's cloud. I add a few extra apps, via the simplest possible way. I don't touch themes or even wallpapers.
I started my career in software tech support. In that line of work, you need to be able to drive the basic standard config of all the software you support. It's counterproductive to customise your own machine, because if you learn to lean on any tweaks, you are lost when you're on someone else's box and the tweaks are missing.
So, don't. Get proficient with the standards and defaults, even if you hate them. For instance I've been using Vi since 1988 and I still detest it... but I can do the basics I need with it, and it's always there.
The less tweaking you need to do, the better. If you need custom-installed apps, so be it, but install them and learn to use the defaults.