I saw a post on the Mastodony side of Fediverse saying "Some people tweak their Linux installs in the same way other people tend to their home gardens" and it gave me 2d6 of psychic damage because it was just true and was also about me.

I don't even hop distros, I just like fucking around with the configs and shit of the distro I'm already at. It's -- How I procrastinate. Rather than do work I play around with reorganizing my work setup.

You won't believe this, but I've actually finished configuring my linux

Once your system setup reaches perfection (it won't), you're finally free to fine-tune VIM to your exact needs.

When I am done configuring, I start tinkering!

*Laughs in Debian

If you are done configuring your system, you did something wrong.

I'm actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.

me with (neo)vim

Problem I have, is, after I finish tinkering and settle down with my computer for some days/months, then even anything needs fixing or changing I've forgotten how I do it!

It never stops. Distro hopping is an addiction for me.

My kernel is 3 commits behind... gotta rebuild 😹

I've finally stopped distrohopping. I'm now on nobara (used arch before that btw), and don't feel the urge, nor have the energy to distrohop, even though I want to find out what's so great about nix. That said, I still only use my computer for movies, games, and browsing, so I guess the meme still stands.

Oh no...

This is like me with game mods (skyrim). Spent 20 hours modding it just right... spend 10 hours in character creation and more mods for that... move on to another game.

When you try to explain to people that ricing isn't a means, it's the end.

A new long term release? I'll just start over and try every DE again.

I already use it efficiently to configure more stuff.

Nah, it's cyclical. We can figure one for a few years, then try out a new promising distro then we can figure that one for a few years...

I got past that phase a long time ago. I just use Fedora and Debian with mostly defaults

I used to be him, missing deadlines to get my xmonad taskbar all spec'd out. Now only "hop" when my LTS is EOL, and i just run the default UI and use tmux for all my tiling since i tend to be mainly on remote systems anyway.

That yak ain't gonna shave itself