Goodbye Ubuntu…
Yes, the time has come. My Ubuntu install had become really impossible to manage! It was taking forever to boot, it was slow, upgrades kept breaking compiz, compiz and xv didn’t stay happy together, i couldn’t install new kernels or fglrx would stop working..
In short, it was totally unmanageable, for a couple of days i stopped using Ubuntu and switched to my Elive install, after 2 days for me it had become totally impossible to go back in that situation. So i reinstalled Ubuntu, from scratch, configured it like i like, and used it, but it was slow, i kept having a feeling of slowness and bloatness that i didn’t know before.
The couple of days in Elive only had really spoiled me, so i noticed that i was booting always Elive, in fact, my new Ubuntu install was not being used at all, most of the time i was enjoying the swiftness and lightness of Elive.
While Elive is just a bit faster in booting than Ubuntu, its when you have to work with it that you see the difference! Yes sure, gnome is far more complete, but, there are plenty of tools in Elive..
no, i decided i wouldn’t go back this time, goodbye tracker and all those resource hungry stuffs, goodbye bloated system, goodbye compiz, i’ve been a fool in keeping you, trading my cpu for some effects..
Im too old for those stuffs now, i prefer a stable system, polished, and the knowledge of debian community, i’ll leave compiz and all those burpy stuff to the teenagers, they will surely fiddle compiz enough, and they won’t mind spending endless hours in finding in comfig files why doesn’t work, why the upgrade broke it, why this why that..
I hereby renounce to the dark side of the force.
