I think the reason why I like programming and software tinkering but not OS tinkering is because with the former two I get to decide when I do the tinkering

but if I start tinkering with my OS then it decides when I do the tinkering. it can just suddenly be like “hahaha I broke myself! time to learn about partition resizing!”

which is not great when I leave in a few days and need a functioning laptop and do not have the energy or patience for Linuxing