Every few weeks, the same foolish dream comes back to me. I'm using Ubuntu Gnome on a Framework 13. It's stable in the way a bike with training wheels is stable. Training wheels prevent you from falling down, but they also make it hard to go fast, take tight turns, etc.

So here I am again, wondering if I should give Arch or NixOS another try. Last time I did was ~8 months ago, on a $200 arm laptop with roughly nil in the way of specs. I knew little of dotfiles and less of Linux fundamentals.

Now I've been running Omakub for a half year and though I appreciate the stability, I missing the freedom of getting swaywm to *just* how I like it. I miss qutebrowser. I want to run hypr and have a dotfile repo that I can tweak to my liking.

Sure, the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia kind of edit out the memories of the bugs and bootloops. Sure, I got stuck in config hell with NixOS and dependency purgatory with Arch. But maybe the 12th time will finally be the charm?