[aj_hackman]

> I've recently heard that using Linux is an excuse to spend the day tinkering and ricing and do no productive work.

This is why, despite 20 years of using Linux with many successful Arch and Gentoo installs behind me, I just use Fedora or Mint. I can get a development environment set up in 15 minutes, and when everything inevitably explodes and a system update deletes glibc I haven't invested much.