My Ubuntu 12.04 Rants
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I've been using Ubuntu from past five years or so. I was young, loved fixing problems, remembering scary commands and making my system work. Now I've finished my college, have got mouths to feed and want a decent stable OS to make my job easier. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin from scratch last month. I love the OS, love unity but here are some of my rants. 1) Background service eats too much CPU I usually keep my laptop on idle while I lie on my bed. While doing so the first thing I noticed was my laptop's fan constantly running. As you can see from the picture above, compiz, hud-service, xorg and unity-panel-service are eating half of my CPU all night long. 2) Installing indicator-network removes network-manager This is by no means Ubuntu's fault. You need to be careful while using commands like apt-get and specially when you use any sudo command. In my case, I wanted to install weather indicator. While doing so I discovered indicator-netw