>I imagine you are not old enough to remember the yearly "The year of desktop Linux" on Slashdot.

Sure I am, but that meme was (still is?) repeated as a joke, did anyone actually believe it ?

>Also in the old days it was fashionable to try all WM and post screenshots of our setups, specially on weekends.

People still do that, there's a reddit sub dedicated to it: https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn ,but then again there's a reddit sub dedicated to just about everything.

Just like there are stamp collectors, train spotters, rock climbers, ballroom dancers etc, there are people who find enjoyment in tweaking/expressing themselves through 'pimping' their computer environment, I see nothing wrong with that although it's not my cup of tea.

After having configured my environment of choice according to my specific needs I leave it alone and instead waste my spare time on places like Hacker News ;)