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The review doesn't touch my longest-running gripe with Ubuntu... does it still run tracker/nautilus/baloo in the background, sporadically choking on a developer's filesystem and hanging the entire UI? Because I'm really not impressed by a clean install being snappy.

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Tracker does run in the background. I disabled some of the things it indexes. I don't experience any slowdowns.

Nautilus is there, it's the file manager. I installed Nemo because I want to keep using type ahead in the local folder. I still get Nautilus in the file dialogs and tracker in the full screen modal opened by the super key (is it the dash?)

Baloo, no idea what it is.

Overall 19.10 it's faster than 16.04 on the same laptop. It's 3 years of work and a clean install (dual booting for now, two different SSDs.)

Baloo appears to be the KDE equivalent of GNOME's tracker. Not sure why both would be running on the same system.

It wasn't implied that they were on the same system. The grandparent was either implying that they don't remember which is which, or that which one is running depends on which Ubuntu flavour (gnome or KDE) you're running.

Indeed, I've used multiple flavors over the years, and these have been culprits on various occasions. I'm not an expert on OS's so the uncertainty I conveyed was deliberate.

no, use xfce. Ubuntu is many systems and as a "Hacker" of course you make it your own - that is the reason for running Linux, you control every process.

I use i3wm these days. But no, I prefer good defaults so I can do things with my operating system, rather than waste hours cleaning it up.

I'm using Regolith, which is a Ubuntu distro with i3wm. Compared to the default GNOME 3 setup, I find it a lot easier to customize from Regolith and reach a productive state.

https://regolith-linux.org/

Yes, that is one of the most important reasons for me to use Linux on Notebooks and Workstations everywhere - so much time gained not baby sitting the OS every few weeks, that is still a great experience!

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