[Nexus 5 Original Android Development] absoluterebirth:
That's it. It's over. I'm done flashing things. My flashaholic days are now over. ( well, except for maybe mods here and there :silly: )

I seriously cannot think of a ROM + Kernel combination that is faster than this! I finally decided to settle with Lichti's Rastakat and Trinity kernel.

First impressions: I absolutely cannot believe the speed! When I booted it up and was going through all my apps, I seriously thought that I was on ART. Turned on Developer Settings to see that nope, I was indeed on Dalvik. I'm astonished as to how incredibly fast it is on Dalvik, with its speed rivaling any other ROM I had tried on ART. So definitely points for speed and fluidity without even having to turn on ART.

Customization: Not too much to bloat the ROM but not to few where I'd have to resort to Xposed + GravityBox for additional tweaks and whatnot. One thing that kinda bothered me was the centered clock. I always loved having my clock centered and it always seemed to me that the notifications would spill through the clock and it'd just be a cluttered mess, except for Cataclysm. This problem is persistent here. It's definitely not a deal breaker at all as it's something I can live without, but that's just my two cents. Also, for some reason, superuser is in my app drawer and not in the settings? Or is it buried somewhere? I'm using Koush's superuser. Don't know if I'm suppose to be using Chainfire's SU app..

Another thing is the notification drawer. I'm not sure if I'm missing anything, but none of these icons can be switched/turned off? I don't find the Torch, Auto Rotate, and Power Menu icons there, as I really just use auto rotate all the time, I can double tap the status bar to sleep my device (amazing implementation btw), and I don't do alot of navigating around at night. Again, just my two cents.

Appearance/Aesthetics: I CAN'T EVEN. Ever since I can remember (this is talking about child me), I always loved playing with colors. I always liked to mix and match and have one color here, one color there, some other color over here. As I began to mature, I started liking inverted, solid, understated colors. One of my greatest color combinations was Black/White. Absolutely adored it. And this ROM is just that! Enough white accents to keep me happy so I don't have to look at the awful holo blue and PLENTY of the black theme all around to keep me coming back for more. I just cannot get over how gorgeous the entire user interface looks.

The only thing I've changed so far is flash someone's black theme ui zip that made this ROM even more appealing, replaced all notification and ringer sounds with stock rom sounds, and flashed Trinity and I've gotta say, that this is turning out to be quite a ROM. I don' think I'll be flashing any other ROM from now on :fingers-crossed:

Thanks [MENTION=3124065]rascarlo[/MENTION], [MENTION=2998612]lichti1901[/MENTION], [MENTION=1122306]morfic[/MENTION], [MENTION=1811927]simms22[/MENTION], and everyone else in the trinity and rastakat community for helping me transition into what seems to be one of the very best ROMs and experiences I've ever experienced on my N5 to date. I'll update you guys in a week to give my input on battery life and how things are going with the ROM. Again, many thanks for curing my flashaholicism :D