Would you prefer seeing a terminal login prompt after X crashed?

But I haven't used ubuntu in a while, so perhaps this is just a case of I'm not in the right user group for the distro.

I actually like this feature. I'm often following a tutorial, or using a command on a newer install, and suddenly a command's not found -- it's really nice to be able to see how to get past the obstacle immediately without Googling, guessing, or trying to figure out how to make the "apt-cache search" command tell you what you want to know.

Also, for me the loading time isn't this long and is greatly reduced after the first such search. I'm guessing your system is under RAM pressure and your disk is fragmented.

You can disable this feature by opening /etc/default/apport and editing enabled=1 to enabled=0. Then stop the service with "sudo service apport stop" or reboot.

You can then selectively enable it again when you notice a reproducible bug or use ubuntu-bug to report bugs against packages.

After having used Xubuntu for a while I'm getting really tempted to just ln -s /bin/grep /bin/grerp

:)

If you mistype commands often, there's an entertaining package which contains an "sl" command.

  sudo apt-get install sl

  DESCRIPTION
         SL stands for Steam Locomotive.

  BUGS
         It rarely shows contents of current directory.