Installing and configuring software is the ultimate form of Yak Shaving.

Fighting the GIMP, I spent enormous amount of time setting the development environment.
On the last iteration I've found this beautiful article related to the Docker.
The "Yak shaving" metaphor describes my process so precisely that I could not resist to store it here.
If I would have found this article earlier, I could have saved much much much time. On the other hand, how could I know, how much time would it save? It is so ironic...