Some very cool ideas there. The article struck a chord on "people don't want to learn to use their computers": especially, they put a high premium on interchangeability. Examples: people asking to borrow my computer but recoiling from "a linux", me not wanting to switch to xmonad because I can't use it on lab computers.
I think personally I'm going to make an effort to learn some more of the command line instead of using Ubuntu's GUI tools for config.
I become less reluctant after installing a time tracker and finding that I spend >45 minutes a day looking for or moving windows. It only took an hour to install and learn.
Leads me to wonder if there are similar inefficiencies in the rest of my work. Has anyone tried tracking similar statistics for things like features implemented or bugs added? There's no end of efficiency advice on HN but I've yet to see anyone take a scientific approach and actually monitor their performance.
I think personally I'm going to make an effort to learn some more of the command line instead of using Ubuntu's GUI tools for config.