Re: [LUG] Time to upgrade

[bad apple <ifindthatinteresting@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/10/12 18:30, Martin Gautier wrote:

On 25/10/12 17:56, Neil Winchurst wrote:

As for which distro to choose as the new one...!!! I have got it down to
four possibles, but for every good review there is one not so good.

So which are the four in the running? ;)

I've rolled back my fresh Ubuntu 12.10 install due to it not supporting nVidia drivers properly yet (it defaults to nouveau in the hope that x-swat catch up and compile a set for the latest X they saddled 12.10 with).

I must recommend Mint's Cinnamon desktop. I'm running it on my old Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the Unity 2D Dash. It's very quick and pretty bug free (so far) - better than Unity & Gnome Shell which is slow on my system and very crashy.

Regs
Martin

I'm (unfortunately) already running 12.10 myself, and didn't actually have any graphics problems (Nvidia 8800 GTX with nvidia-current). The x-swat guys haven't rolled the Quantal PPA yet as you found out. It's more bleeding edge, but if you don't mind having the very latest and greatest then the xorg-edgers PPA does have Quantal covered:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

I quite like cinnamon as well - several of my friends and my parents are using either debian/ubuntu + cinnamon or plain old Mint very happily, as opposed to Unity which just makes everyone angry. Personally I mostly use a very heavily modified gnome-shell which isn't currently going well as the latest 3.6 version breaks half of the essential extensions and my custom mods. VMWare still haven't fixed the damned installer routine either even after 6 bloody years of bug reports which combined with other Ubuntu stupidity means that 12.10 is not destined to last much longer as my OS.

Regards

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