I've been using crunchbang openbox (debian base) for the longest time, but just recently switched to arch out of frustration with some of the debian wheezy issues right now. I'm still using the same setup for the most part though, openbox with some xfce apps and other stuff. Thunar file manager, terminator or urxvt terminal emulator, tint2 pannel (which I never use really), nitrogen for setting wall paper, and conky for system monitoring. A lot of that stuff you could replace with other apps, but two of those things which I can't live without anymore are terminator and conky. Terminator is great because of it's built in tiling functions (I really don't need tiled media player and browser windows) and conky is the most configurable system monitor out there. The openbbox rc.xml file is really easy to configure and once you set up your hotkeys to your liking, you find yourself not even needing the GUI or a mouse to swith between windows, open applications, resize windows etc. If you wanna try this setup with minimal hassle, you can check out the crunchbang distro from a live CD, it's debian stable based though which might not be your thing.

...for me anyways. I wouldn't really spend money to increase my I/O on data that has all ready been read before. My windows side of my desktop that I use for gaming has a cheap SSD and my linux side boots in around 10 seconds anyways, even from a 5900 RPM HDD. Boot up time is probably one of the only times I read the same file(s) frequently. How many people really care that their resumé is going to pop up 2 milliseconds faster every time they open it? In the enterprise world, you could just use a standalone SDD for caching anyways.

It has one 5400 rpm 2 TB drive with an xfs volume that I access once a month or so and a couple SSDs. Why waste power having all kinds of internal things installed that you never use.

I prefer openbox myself, and use it on all my personal machines. Awesome is nice as well. But I've tried using Unity and Gnome3 and lo and behold, they still have a terminal. Install tmux on them and I'm ready to go. I mean all my graphical applications that I use (like lyx for documents and firefox for web related stuff) still work on the new GUIs, so what's all the controversy about? As long as the new user interfaces aren't all bugged, It's not going to change my opinion of them. I never really used gnome or KDE that much before, why should I care that they've become even more simplified?

I don't see anything in the release notes, I thought buterfase was supposed to be the default file system in F16?

....but I've never been above some good ole DDoS.

or I actually buy movies, in order to support artists who's income depends on it. Even better, you can go see something in the theater! I don't know what it's like in other areas, but here in NC there's plenty of theaters that show movies a little bit later than others and charge between $1.50 and $3 per person per showing. I'd rather rent new movies than stream old ones. Redbox never has anything I haven't all ready watched. Sometimes I stream random B horror movies and foreign ones on Netflix, but even then the selection is pretty limited.

Now I'll have to virtualize Windows inside of Linux when I feel like running it....Oh wait, I all ready do that.

I use rechargeable batteries for all of the devices in my room just for environmental reasons. The other people in the house use purely alkaline batteries and have a large stockpile of them.

I generally can get just about any hardware/software combination running on debian stable with just a few packages from testing/unstable/backports. Everyone has different tastes though, I'll definitely be taking this new Mandriva for a spin.