> it's a lot like saying that hackers spend their time doing "pointless tweaking"

I'm a hacker and I think most hackers (including myself) often spend too much time pointlessly tweaking things.

Your emacs shortcuts are okay. Promise! Just get to work.

Your linux kernel is fine. Yes all the network drivers are configured well enough. Yes samba shares are working, yes rsyinc is copying stuff around. Just get to work.

Yes, X is perfectly configured and compiz is doing its thing. Yes it is! Just get to work.

I promise your IDE has the perfect amount of widgets in just the right place! Start coding.

And so on :)