I replaced Ubuntu with Arch in Mars 2010 just before Ubuntu was going to be released with the new Unity desktop. And it wasn't just because of Unity itself I replaced Ubuntu, there were several other reasons that made me dislike Ubuntu over time.
Until a few months ago I was a very happy Arch user running GNOME 2. I have always liked the GNOME 2 desktop and I didn't have any plans to replace it with anything else. But when I read about GNOME 3 for the first time I was chocked. And when I tried it for the first time I was terrified. WTF were they thinking of? In my opinion, it sucks even more than my vacuum cleaner.
I soon realized that I had to replace it with something that sucked less. Over the years I have tried pretty much every DE/WM out there, and many of them are OK, but its always something I miss about them. But what choice did I have know? A few weeks later, I had once again tried pretty much everything (floating) from KDE and Xfce to more lightweight alternatives like OpenBox. And I didnt really liked anyone, picky as I am.
I then felt I only had one option left, tiling WM. I have tried Awesome and xmonad in the past, and they were cool but I didnt see the benefits with them back then. I started doing some research about the alternatives. One that caught my interest was WMFS, I really liked the name and how small it was. And I soon liked it even more when I realized how easy it was to configure it.
About 3 months later, I really cant see myself with a floating WM again. I actually tried the GNOME 2 fork named Mate a few weeks ago, but after a few hours it drove me crazy with all the floating windows, and it did actually slowed down my productivity.
So, in the end I'm very happy and pleased, even though I felt that all hope was gone for a while.
Hm, this turned out to the be longest journal entry ever. I hope you could stand my poor english.

















