Feb 26 2010
Resisting the urge
I was going to reinstall ubuntu this morning. I’ve been playing about with openbox, kubuntu, ubuntu studio and others, and my system felt like it was getting a bit clogged up. Conky was showing odd behaviour on the CPU, RAM usage was high, and it generally looked like there were far too many processes running. Time to reinstall, thought I.
But no. Half an hour spent judiciously pruning software in Synaptic, and some minor config file tweaking later, and I’m back up with a lithe, almost pristine system. And with no time-consuming reinstalling and reconfiguring, not to mention the lack of stress I always get when I hit the continue button after repartitioning. Even if I know I’m all backed up and have done all I need to, I always suffer the heebie-jeebies after OK’ing that “You do know that all of your data is about to be destroyed? All of it?” dialog.
Long and short – I’m keeping on top of my game and actually quite enjoying not stressing about the system I’m using. I’ve also started to look at Linux home recording stuff ready to write and play some new songs. More on that anon.