[Pokepokalypse]

>This is very 'unhacker' advice, but I generally learn to love defaults

There's a lot of wisdom in this advice: the more time you spend messing with settings to customize the UX; the less repeatable this configuration is, and the harder it is to get a new system back up and running.

Also: what's "hacker" is working on many many different systems, and being able to at least minimally adapt to each different system's set of defaults, so you can remain productive. (and for me, this means absolutely forgetting all about one platform's take on hot-keys, shortcuts, and setting up aliases).

Mouse-scroll direction? I can't abide the "reverse" (scroll down to go up), and that's one thing I'm not ever going to let slide on a new system.

[gonehome]

Yeah - I think we have the same perspective.

On mouse-scroll direction, the 'reverse' is actually the way the content moves (if you imagine your hand on the screen). I came around to thinking this makes more sense than the direction the scroll bar moves, but it was weird at first.