Idiosyncra

Chris Siebenmann describes Mike Hoye's (mhoye) Linux setup as deliberately living in the Linux console or close to it. The setup described is out there and everytime I get tempted to do something the same I'm reminded on the following:

If other people in the world have the computer problems I have now, no search has brought me to them. Error messages that do not exist anywhere except my screen and the program source if I’m lucky are part of my life. If something doesn’t work either I deal with it or I don’t. This is not the easy path, and you walk it alone.

Regardless it's worth the read, if not for ore entertainment, there's useful bits if information in there.