man i look at screenshots of old linux porting projects (like https://linux-7110.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml) and it's so crystal clear to me that today linux simply is no longer a fun (or even for the most part functional, highly depending on your hardware and usecase) system
if linux was still freely customizable and quirky like this i would still like it today, imo
i had angstrom linux running on an hp ipaq a few months ago and that was the most fun i had with a linux system in about a decade
nowadays you want to change like, i don't know, the size of your icons on your desktop and you have to fight against 10 different conf files ones less documented than the other
