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When I open a Reddit thread about "how do I create my own desktop environment" and all the comments from different people are some version of "don't, we already have too many of them", it makes the whole supposed promise of "fully modifiable, let a thousand options bloom" in Linux-land feel rather hollow.
Like, where's your enthusiasm? Your curiosity? Your pointers? Your constructive criticism?
Maybe because they don't know as much as they want you to believe they do, maybe because actually helping someone out is too much of an effort. A simple "don't" is very easy.