A Tale Of King and Evil or How I Made Peace With Ubuntu!
In which I tell how Ubuntu won my trust back. Once Upon A Time... I used to be a fairly happy Ubuntu user from 2008 to 2011 (shh! I was a faithful FreeBSD and KDE 3 user before that). I could concentrate on my job and my desktop didn't get in my way. I didn't spend any of my time trying to configure things the sane way. A Kingdom Without An Heir But things changed by the double blow of Gnome 3 and Unity. Introduced at almost the same time, they ruined my IT life and destroyed my productivity. Seriously. Only gods know, how many hours (instead of happily coding) I spent fiddling Gnome 3 or Unity to have a responsive desktop that behaved like a desktop is supposed to: not get in my way! I switched to Ubuntu Gnome to find myself unsatisfied, and then back to KDE 4, and despite it being really cool, found it not for my type. Then tried XFCE and quickly learned it was a mistake. The Era Of Pain And Chaos This state of distress pushed me to the point that for almost 7 months I ...