I've been a Ubuntu fanboy for years. When my old desktop running XP completely failed, my older brother installed Ubuntu on it and I fell in love with it. A fe

I've been a Ubuntu fanboy for years. When my old desktop running XP completely failed, my older brother installed Ubuntu on it and I fell in love with it. A few months ago I did a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04 on my netbook that had previously been running Windows 7. Unity didn't bother me. What bothered me was how much unnecessary software was installed. I felt like I had no control. After only a few weeks of using Ubuntu I decided to install Arch Linux for the first time. I haven't looked back since. I think people underestimate just how good it feels to be in complete and utter control of your system. I know exactly what is installed on my system, how to fix it if something goes wrong and exactly what I'm getting myself into when I upgrade. I felt like I had that power back when I was running Ubuntu 8.04, but I was slowly losing it with each new release, and that's why I stopped using Ubuntu.