[TacticalCoder]

> However, the older I get the less enthused I am about having to play around with config files...

I'm in my late forties and I don't play with config files a lot because... Once X11 / Awesome WM is set up it is set up, well, for years. Literally years. Does not move: not a iota.

At times I've had my "workstation" (just a big PC) with an uptime of 6 months. 6 months of uptime, for a desktop. That's how stable things can be. (I had my reasons for leaving my computer up at night for one of its core was computing something: but that's not the point... The point is these Linux and BSDs can be so stable you can, if you want and kernel security patch excepted, easily reach one year of uptime).

My current desktop PC is six years old and I'll soon buy a new one and I'll reinstall everything from scratch: I've got notes and may need to "fight" new hardware and whatnots for a few hours (if I'm unlucky) but then hopefully I'll be good for another six years?

The thing is: if you don't like tailoring your system to the way you like it to work, then you're forced to use the way others thought it'd be best for you...

So, sure, it may be a bit more work than a Windows or OS X machine, but the stability and uptime is also on a whole another level.