GuTSy is slow!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 15:20 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> I begin to wonder.  I use it because it has a better release cycle than
> Debian, but I've never been happy with its choices of applications that I
> just _have_ to have running. 

You don't _have to. Disabling compiz is like, what, 3 clicks? And
tracker is 3 more?

But anyway, the direction Ubuntu was headed seemed always very clear to
me. It's actually why I chose it after many years of Debian: my needs
had changed and I just needed a reliable desktop machine that does
things without me fiddling around.

>  I load my machine up enough without silly
> stuff like tracker and beryl.

Well, on most modern desktops/laptops, compiz (as it is now known
again ;) uses actually less CPU resources than non-accelerated X.
Thought the GPU load may be an issue with battery life, but I dunno.

> updatedb once a day was always good enough for me...

Monty Python jokes aside, updatedb sucks terribly at indexing file
(email, IM, ...) content. If this is what you want/need, tracker is
decidedly not silly.


> As for network manager - for a fixed desktop machine, it really is serious
> overkill.  Laptops need something like NM (I use it/I like it), but it
> should be a laptop option.

Functionality-wise, I agree. But laptops _are the biggest market segment
today, and why maintain a separate networking solution when NM needs
scarcely any CPU and RAM, when most desktop/laptop machines are idle
most of the time anyway? It's easy to remove, use another distro, etc.