I also had massive performance problems when opening directories with more than 100 files in them (it took more than a minute to open a directory with 5,000 pictures :-()

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You don't use Compiz though, do you?

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I could never get MATE to run well with Compiz. I haven't had a problem with the default ubuntu desktop, though.

Not really. I'll have to commute, but I'm hoping it'll give me some stability.

No, I eventually withdrew from that. Super creepy. I'm going to be doing a bunch of scala backend programming starting November.

Have I told you about my new job yet?

#startuplife

Are you interested in Scala?