lol, no doubt this place can get confusing...
Trying out different ROMs is fun and all but honestly, there is more to making a good kitchen than a good ROM.
I'm using what is easily the best ROM right now. It's fast, has all I want, is stable and does what I need it to:
That ROM is one I threw together.
No one's ROM that I have tried here comes close to what I have, because this is what I want. And really, 90% of people enjoying someone else's custom ROM is them just liking the way it looks, has the stuff they want, etc. It's like movie reviews.
With the advent of a visual kitchen (e.g. SSK or Calkulin's for TP2) there is no reason for people to necessarily try all these ROMs. The ROM chefs aren't really doing any magic--it simply comes down to having the right "ingredients" in your kitchen. You have those and anyone can throw a solid ROM together in minutes.
Speed? You want to make things fast,
read my guide. A lot of that stuff (plus some others I didn't detail) is all you need.
Changing cache, ripping out bloat, compress some .exe's, changing the .xip, getting a good PagePool...that's all there is too it.
And it's easy. I didn't even read the directions on SSK's ROM and had a nice one in 20 mins. Calkulin's is more advanced but it too is a no-brainer.
Just saying the gap between Chef and End-user/flasher is very narrow these days. Once you grab the latest WM source files, you too can be running the latest OS.
Some chef's do stand out for their custom graphics, or quick fixes and that's to be commended. But after one week, I'm pretty much done with using other people's ROMs and just pay attention to using a kitchen and (with baby steps) going further into understanding how it all works.
Everyone should do themselves a favor and just download a kitchen and spend 30 minutes looking over it. It's like an
Ã* la carte menu--just pick and choose. Cut out the middle man, you'll be a lot happier.
And "donate" to
yourself when you're done.
