You can say that :) 20 years ago while being a student I used Gentoo Linux and I spent more time compiling, tweaking, breaking and fixing thinks than any real work. Then during my first job I moved to Ubuntu and the thrill of running the bleeding edge came from running Ubuntu dev repos. As I got older and didn’t have time to tinker with stuff, I just moved to Mac. But I sure miss those Gentoo/Ubuntu times, so sometimes I install some Linux distros in VM just know what has changed.