# Giving GNOME the boot



The GNOME decadence [thread](http://www.osnews.com/story/19848) got me
thinking. What does GNOME give me? (I consider myself a hardcore UNIX 
user). Well... it gives a nice interface with a nice terminal
implementation (gnome-terminal). Further more with the recent Ubuntu
8.04, it also provides 

 * PulseAudio, never got that working btw, went back to ALSA.
 * Tracker, what the hell was ever wrong with `locate`? Never got
 that working, and when I did, it was dog slow.
 * I should be using evolution for emailing... no thanks! I'm a happy
 `mutt` user.
 * There is no support for VI-key bindings in GTK... (which is not
  gnome's fault, but irritating none the less)

So I purged GNOME from my system and started using
[Xmonad](http://xmonad.org/), a tiling
window manager. I'm still using GTK applications, because most of
them still rule. But I'm happy that I'm leaving this whole GNOME
business behind.