In a stronger effort to give applications the trial they deserve, I have uninstalled my old standbys.

paludis --uninstall vim; paludis --install diakonos gedit

I am looking for something between nano and vim with the suckless philosophy

• good: consistent keybindings for most of my apps
• bad: feel less productive, especially missing ‘cw’ and ‘dw’

• ugly: missing exheres-syntax.vim

  paludis –uninstall firefox; paludis –install chromium-bin

This was a much easier switch.

• good: blazingly fast
• more good: don’t miss any firefox features
• good,good: greasemonkey scripts, google bookmarks integration
• amazing: flash doesn’t stutter or crash!

The only problem was nss reporting all certificates as revoked, but that was a clock issue, fixed with the following commands:

echo "TZ=\"America\/New_York\" >> /etc/env.d/00basic
sudo eclectic env update
ntpdate tick.stonybrook.edu
hwclock --systohc # dual boot with bad OS means clock is set to local

It was actually chromium’s strictness denying access to sites with revoked certificates that forced me to fix my clock. FYI firefox doesn’t have this bug because they work around it.