I really don’t know why I hate gnome, I just hate it. After moving from Kubuntu to Ubuntu, my productivity have drop dramatically and my computer have become unstable and slow. There is so many little things that I don’t like on gnome, and just 3 things why I like gnome.

First things I like on Gnome:

• Dropbox works (It requires nautilus)
• Firefox looks nice without changing theme (on kde with default settings, it looks horrible)
• Compiz works well

And then the bigger list, why I hate Gnome:

• Task manager/System managing
• Its slow (on my computer at least)
• It is unstable (KDE is stabler.)
• I don’t like panel system
• I don’t like nautilus
• I don’t like “simplicity”
• I don’t like terminal emulator
• I don’t like menus. (applications/places/system)
• I don’t like default colors
• I want my Amarok in native environment
• I want konqueror!

Yes, many things aren’t so big and can be fixed, but I like KDE, it works on me better than Gnome. I hate Gnome, but someone else may like it. (?)

So I will install something to my current system, Wmii or KDE. And when next Kubuntu release comes out, I will and download it and install it.

Update: installed kubuntu 8.04 now happy with it

Wmii is advanced light weight window manager for Unix systems. Before Wmii I used KDE, but now I have Mac where I can manage my photos, surf the web and listen to the music. On my Linux box I just play couple of games and write my applications, and mostly I just use terminals. After reading a article about lightweight window managers found Wmii.

Wmii is designed to use with keyboard, without mouse and this is only a good thing for me! If you learn all shortcuts of Wmii before giving up you have superior fast, powerful and comfortable way to manage your terminals.

Because Wmii is just a window manager, it doesn’t include some of the important features like mounting a device, volume control and file manager. Using Internet I learned how to mount devices from command line. I also found cli-applications for controlling volume and files. I control volume using alsamixer utility. For file managing I use command line application called Midnight commander.

Here is screenshot from my new desktop:

My Linux box running Wmii