preach!

I don’t have a car, so if I have to go ‘back to the office’, I will have to use the bus, wake up earlier, and commuting (even with my current employer being 15’ away by bus) is still 30 minutes out of my day that I don’t want to spend. When I am at home, I can just stand up, play some piano to relax, or have a short shower. Things that help me calm a little bit that I can’t do at an office. I also have a better setup than the setup at the company’s office, so why bother.

To be honest, as long as companies open remote positions, I don’t think I want to go back to any office whatsoever.

to be honest, i agree with you. Although you can learn the same things through debian or ubuntu for example, their wikis are in no-way comparable to arch+gentoo. Having tried LFS, I think it is a great experience but definitely not something i could daily-drive. FreeBSD is something I have not tried; nixOS as well. I have used OpenBSD but it feels a bit slow compared to linux - at least as a desktop OS.

Every distribution offers different things. I like debian sid for the simplicity and general software availability, but APT is something i still consider a bit clunky. I like arch because of its barebones philosophy - arch wiki helped me a lot learn about linux. I like gentoo - the wiki is awesome and portage is a great package manager. It was the first time I saw how the linux kernel gets compiled. It makes you appreciate all the work the devs do. I now read the title and you ask for the opposite. But someone might find these bad, so i will post it as-is

systemd brings much functionality. It can’t follow unix philosophy because unix is 50 years old. the whole community drama about this systemd VS sysV VS OpenRC VS whatever comes up, is funny. There are distros that are systemd-free if you wish so much to avoid it.

Damn. It feels bad even though I never met this man in person. RIP legend!! :'(

I work remotely, so listening mainly from my monitor’s speakers during work. After work, I recently bought a really small DAP made by shanling, and as an output I use a JBL small bluetooth speaker or oneplus buds Z2 (I bought them on sale and it was a great purchase). My music collection is a bit large (~2TB) so on my DAP I have ~100gb and it is more than enough. If I need something from my collection, I just transfer it from my pc.

I don’t really like podcasts, but I use the same DAP for audiobooks sometimes.

neovim, zsh, firefox, vlc, mpv, zsh plugins for autocomplete, ripgrep, zerotier vpn,fzf, pip3, htop, i am not sure what else

I like spotify due to the many options I have (web player, awesome mobile apps, and 3rd party clients like ncspot (cli), or psst(GUI client written in Rust)).

I have tried Tidal, but the cost seems a bit prohibitive at the end of the day. For privacy-minded/tech-savvy folks, I would say local music library is the best solution and after that, self hosting some subsonic-compatible software like https://www.navidrome.org/docs/.

I personally have a small VPS running anyways so I use gonic (https://github.com/sentriz/gonic) on the server and symfonium(https://symfonium.app/) on android as a client. So, personal music collection combined with spotify premium, is, IMO, as good as it gets.

I enjoy gnome with the arcMenu extension https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3628/arcmenu/ I will include usually some other extensions, but arcMenu is what makes the experience a lot better than the stock one for me.