Kubuntu was my first distro that I really liked. It was almost cutting-edge, based on Debian, fast and stable. And it had the Kde 3. The best desktop environment ever. But now, Kde 4 has been released and kubuntu is moving to use kde 4. Now it is time to me to change distro.

Old kubuntu 8.04 is starting to get old and I have found some unstability (meaning random crashes and freezing for 2 sec once  on a month(So, it is still much more stable than windows)). I don’t want to move to latest Kubuntu, because it has the Kde 4, I don’t want to  continue using of older version of Kubuntu, because it is old.

I have tried to use Kde 4 for couple of times. I have found it unfinished and weird. Kde 4 is trying to be more newbie friendly, and thats not a good thing. Example dolphin. Konqueror is much better and it has much more features. Dolphin is something that could be on gnome, not in kde.

In kde 3 I can change almost every setting, I can modify my desktop to be just like I want. Kde 3 is desktop environment for power users. Kde 4 is something for regular users. Kde 4 is too simple for me!

So moving to ubuntu isn’t a option, because, well, it uses gnome. I have decided to move to the Debian, because it is stable. I think I install something like wmii or xfce to it. Yes, I could get xubuntu, but I think debian is more stable and xubuntu is based on Debian, so there is no big difference.

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