Because polls make you talk to me ;-)

[sally_maria]

I was talking to alitalf last weekend about customising computers to the way you work. He said that he tends to leave things as they are because it makes it easier when he's working on other people's computers.

On the other hand customising is one of the first thing I do when I get a new computer/install a new distro. My version of Firefox is probably changed enough to confuse most people who aren't me and right from the start I learnt to edit the .sys files on my original PC so I could change the splash screen you get on boot up.

I suspect a good part of my attraction to Linux is more settings to fiddle with. ;-)

So I wondered where you fell in the spectrum:

Poll #5055

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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Do you change your computer's appearance, settings etc?

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You mean I can change the background picture?
0 (0.0%)

Occasionally I change something.
0 (0.0%)

I've installed some browser extensions and done a few other tweaks.
3 (50.0%)

No one who isn't me can understand how my system works, mwah, ha, ha!
3 (50.0%)

I will complain about the narrow options given in this poll in the comments!
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[alitalf]

I do change things that slow me down enough to be worth the effort of changing them, but, for me, a computer is a tool to get a task done, and it remains handy to be sufficiently used to the standard configuration to be able to use and fix other people's computers. That proportion of the people I know who need *computer* support are more than averagely likely to use a fairly standard configuration in any case.

That does not necessarily apply to those I may help with plumbing, or mending domestic appliances, though.