[kcplate]

All of it is subjective of course, and I will admit that once upon a time I was a tinkerer to try and find the perfect DE and UI for me. However, about 15 years ago I just got tired of that pursuit and just decided what MacOS gave me out of the box was fine. Now only tweaked by Rectangle just to handle window tiling a bit better.

What I discovered is that all of the effort I spent trying to get to that place of “productivity” I lost so much time that the juice wasn’t worth the squeeze. Not to mention the amount of time needed just to replace a machine to get it “usable”. My efforts towards that productive utopia made me not productive.

Hats off though to anyone who actually gets there and gets a measurable net benefit for their efforts. But for those still in that pursuit, I’d recommend trying to just go out of the box for awhile. It can be liberating and you might find those annoyances you are fixated on in your current out of the box OS, might become less important if you just dive in.