Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by coryfoo on Friday April 08, 2011 @03:39PM
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I agree. And from what I have read/seen as far as Unity goes is that it is not ready for prime time just yet. On the other hand, Gnome 3 looks pretty awesome. Just saying.
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Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by pge on Friday April 08, 2011 @03:50PM
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Gnome 3 is great...if you have compatible graphics processing.
Ubuntu (and Gnome for that matter) are facing an interesting challenge there. Do you try to take Windows head on and assume your target customer is running new hardware? or do you try to keep the installed base of Linux users happy? Many of those are using Linux on older hardware precisely because it's still pretty snappy on those machines, while Windows is too bloated. It seems hard to have it both ways.
Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by bad_user on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:01PM
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You got it backwards -- newer hardware is the problem ;)
Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by rbanffy on Friday April 08, 2011 @05:26PM
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Gnome shell mandates compositing.
Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by owaislone on Friday April 08, 2011 @05:56PM
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Unity doesn't because it has a fallback shell that mimics actual unity 100%.
Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by jwalanta on Friday April 08, 2011 @03:58PM
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Awesome yes, but Gnome3 also doesn't seem stable enough yet.
Re:Gnome desktop instead of Unity in Ubuntu 11.04?
by carlrice on Friday April 08, 2011 @04:13PM
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Fedora 15 with the latest updates and official NVIDIA drivers, its been my main environment for the last week with very little problem (especially considering FC15 is still Alpha).
My main gripe is the lack of preferences in the GUI, but a little google + cl fixes that.