Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by andrey-p on Friday April 18, 2014 @07:53AM (#7608837)

I've been a staunch Xubuntu user for the past couple of years and I'm completely pleased with my setup, but I'm interested in giving Gnome a try.

The main thing that's holding me back is that my machines aren't massively powerful - do you know if Gnome is as resource-hungry as Unity?

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by broodbucket on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:11AM (#7608867)

Both have gotten much better in this department than they used to be. I would say they're about equivalent.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by kijin on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:29AM (#7608908)

Nowadays, GNOME and Xfce consume about the same amount of resources by default.

The only difference is that GNOME makes more serious use of your graphics card.

KDE with lots of effects >> Unity ~= KDE with fewer effects > GNOME ~= Xfce >> LXDE

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by danford on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:30AM (#7608910)

GNOME seems to be a little snappier than Unity to me, But I have not yet installed the latest Unity.

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Re:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by johnchristopher on Friday April 18, 2014 @08:42AM (#7608936)

FWIW: Gnome on wheezy is way snappier than unity (12.04 with or without unity-2d and 13.10 14.04 with unity) on my old and trusty eee-pc (n280+gma950).

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