https://slated.org/the_poetterisation_of_gnu_linux
The more you know.
EDIT: nope, it's more direct: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering
a connection the article didn't make clear.
I'm not sure using someone's surname is such a great idea for this purpose. But I now at least understand why. Also their anger at the added complexity being done to Linux and surrounding structures including but not limited to systemd.
But these structures are still in flux. Even if it means a mess along the way.
> "Be the change you want to see in the world" - ghandi
Gandhi (spelled thus) never said that. What he did say (in an article about first-aid treatments for snakebites, weirdly enough), was this:
> We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.
-- The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandi, vol. 13, p. 241 (http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/mahatm...)
Not quite as snappy, admittedly.
I'm not as sure with Macs (and the surrounding culture isn't really eager on such things anyway), but there's a long history of people modding Windows in various ways, that goes back to the DOS days. Of course your customisation is highly unlikely to make it back to MS, but things like WindowBlinds were extremely popular.
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - ghandi
That said, you can't do that with windows or macosx.
Now capitalism works, so apple and microsoft apply the money they make to hard/unsexy things like sleep-wake bug fixes and APIs and sane defaults.
But they also bake advertising into their codebase and leech data home to the mothership and prevent you from running all the programs you'd like.
So look at linux as an opportunity.