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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
My problem into getting into a new OS is that I always have to make it totally "mine" first before I can enjoy it and that usually involves heavy modification of layout, basic features, addons, changing the way I interact with my files, having certain on screen displays of stuff I want to keep monitoring, etc. so that usually takes a month of messing around while not really know what I am doing. I can't stand using anything using the default interface.
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I'm the complete opposite. Vanilla desktop configs are the win for me, because on any given day I'll interact with my own machine, 4-5 server desktops, and numerous desktops. It's not worth the mental hurdles to sit down at a machine and have to fight the muscle memory required to be productive. It gets fatiguing, like driving a rental car where nothing is quite where you expect it or works quite like you are used to. So I stick with the config I know will be common to 90% of the machines I touch - start bar/dock on the bottom, no auto-hide, IE or Safari, etc.
That's why I recommended earlier in this thread not changing keyboard bindings - its short term gain, for what will eventually become painful when your machine operates totally different from everybody else's.
I do have a core set of workflow apps I'd be lost without on my own machine (eg. Omnifocus, Notational Velocity, certain widgets, etc), but otherwise vanilla suits me fine.