I hope you didn’t get me wrong, I think it’s an awesome hobby! I love nerd culture and I love looking at Unix porn. I am often blown away by the results and what is possible! And this part where you learn about Linux is very cool, too.

I don’t know if this is accurate, but someone claimed that ricing is a hobby sometimes to such an extent that their setups are solely for the looks. They don’t work with it. It can happen that they restart the ricing after a short while. I guess if you have to do actual work on your computer you tend to strive to simpler and less complex setups.

A tool that works with markdown is tiddlywiki but I am not sure if it fits your needs.