[uberduper]

I don't understand why you'd need to configure x11 or networking more than once.

My routine maint tasks are `fwupdmgr get-updates` and `yay -Syu --devel` followed by `reboot`

I'm not sure what else people are doing other than tinkering with how things are setup. I spend a lot of time trying out other window managers and compositors or setting up various keybinds or automations I think would be useful, but I don't consider those maintenance tasks.

[sanderjd]

Oh you definitely don't in theory. But you totally do in practice. There's no good reason, it's just the actual experience many people have.

> I spend a lot of time trying out other window managers and compositors or setting up various keybinds or automations I think would be useful, but I don't consider those maintenance tasks.

This is the kind of (in my opinion) low value tedium I'm talking about.

I'm aware that we're talking past each other in these threads. Some people are thinking of software updates, others of us are thinking of stuff like trying out window managers and messing with keybindings, and these are indeed very different kinds of toil.

[uberduper]

>Oh you definitely don't in theory. But you totally do in practice. There's no good reason, it's just the actual experience many people have.

What are you referring to here?

That's like saying it's low value tedium to set folder view in finder to compact. Or trying out Rectangle or one of the auto-tilers, enable night shift.. They're preferences and I don't see how the experience would differ from one OS to another. Maybe you like the way everything works out of the box on OSX. That's cool. I don't. I don't really like how any OS (or wm or compositor) works out of the box.