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Not surprised, it was a bit of a niche project that was quite hard to get into (the options took a bit of reading around to understand what they were on about). It is easy enough to find the flavour of UI you want and more from the arch distros out there (I just found I actually do need cups on my EndeavourOS gnome distro and that's something I didn't toggle (printing). Time to throw in some cups and foomatic packages in there). So again, it's about purpose and as much as I would have liked to have gotten into something about customisation, I've kind of already got a minimal-ish distro to work on.