New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I use this as a way to keep my laptop and desktop more or less in sync, with the additional benefit that I can quickly "image" a Pi or any given test system. There are other ways to do this, and in fact for years I quite happily used nothing. For now, though, I find myself doing similar activities on a variety of systems, and so I find it useful to be able to do a Git pull and inherit all the latest config changes I made on another system.
Features and familiarity, mostly. I install urxvt normally, because I have a very specific theme and some custom extensions that I use; the features exist elsewhere, but not in such a quick and lightweight form. Besides, urxvt has some key bindings I enjoy. I could probably replicate them elsewhere, but why bother when urxvt is just an install away?
Finally, never under estimate the power of "because I can". It's open source. Choice is a luxury. We can choose something different for the sheer pleasure of choosing something different. No justification required!