>OT - I just stripped off all the bloat from my two ubuntu computers - gnome, unity, kde, xfce. Only gtk and some very basic gnome libraries remain, with software like libreoffice, evince, inkscape, gimp, and of course latex/emacs/compilers etc remain. I'm using the i3 window manager. It feels so much faster and I'm so much happier.
Why install Ubuntu in the first place? Allow me to recommend Debian and Gentoo.
Posted Dec 10, 2012 15:29 UTC (Mon) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
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Because I don't see the need to wipe and reinstall? I already use gentoo on another computer. Perhaps it wasn't obvious from what I wrote, but I'm not totally ignorant of the various flavours of linux.