Well if it's strangely hostile I'm sorry but "I need to focus on writing so I spent a few days stripping down a Linux distro" seems pretty disconnected.
I mean it's a fun project!
But it really reminds me of something I would do that isn't entirely positive.
Disconnected from what?
The reason it feels hostile is because you led with a joke about the whole thing being a big mistake, but also that the author wrote about a thing they built to solve a problem they had and ended their post by saying that it worked, and you've popped up to pitch that it might not work.
There isn't any joke in my comment. Apologies for the confusion.