Two bad things have happened 'recently' in the Linux community: GNOME 3 and Unity. But Unity makes kinda sense, if Canonical knew about GNOME 3 I could understand why they felt they have to do something radical. But still, they could have just forked GNOME 2 or make something similar to the classic GNOME 2 desktop. Unity might be cute, but it still suck.

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. My idea was just to ask you about If you're one of those who felt forced to switch to anything else like me? If you were using GNOME 2 that is. And how did that turned out for you?