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by vasilia 2534 days ago
I thought so too. When I was 16 I moved to a university dormitory. It was flat with 3 rooms and 2 people in each room. I was FreeBSD mega-geek but my roommate was a Linux fan(lately he moved to FreeBSD too). We were writing our own fork of DWM(https://dwm.suckless.org/) with functionality like in hackers films, using text-based clients for email, IRC, ICQ(it was really popular in Russia in that time), lynx, etc. It was like we are a hippie-hackers from 70th with a long hair(my was about 70 cm) and very creepy beards. It was really awesome because of no one except us have on so deep knowledge of networks and Unix systems. We were kings of the local network because the building was new without a local network, so we build it from scratch.

And now, 15 years later ... I have a MacBook Pro and iPhone. I'm so lazy. Every day at work I write tons of C/C++ code. I know how works Linux TCP/IP stack, TLS, HTTP1/2/3. But I just want to watch the new Stranger Things episode after the workday. I don't have any customization app for OS X. No special hotkeys or c00l h4x0r terminal app.