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On 07/11/12 10:46, tom wrote: > On 07/11/12 09:17, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, tom wrote: >> >>> Yesterday my machine updated a few packages and now it wont even run >>> unity any-more. >>> I have three machines with 12.04 on and they are all borked one way >>> or another - mostly OpenGL is totally screwed (they're all Nvidia). >>> I normally use XFCE destop but occasionally drop into Unity to try >>> and sort out printing and fileshareing which has also gone >>> completely tits up as the 'upgrade' overwrote configs in a 'secure' >>> way and then hid the mechanism for fixing it in case it scares the >>> user. >>> I have no idea what Unity was meant to achieve for someone who >>> actually uses a computer to compute and not just as an interface to >>> the net but its so badly screwed I'm going to completely get rid of >>> it and move to xubuntu unless anyone else is having similar problems >>> with that. >> >> What do you need, or think you need in ubuntu that Debian (testing) >> won't give you? >> >> Gordon >> > Currently I'm trying to learn Blender (and a couple of other CAD > packages) so its got to run OpenGL well on Nvidia - as by accident I > have 3 machines with that on board so ideally I'd like it to simply > install NVIdia without anything more than agreeing to use a > proprietary driver... which used to be a LOT faster - I cant really > tell now! Debian doesn’t seem to cover some 'legacy' Nvidia. > Ubuntu worked fine until 11.10 in this respect > I'd like all my machines to run the same distribution - the family use > them - and I did originally choose Ubuntu as it looked like it would > be the major linux 'desktop'. I'm getting a new machine for backing > everything up and proxying (another viglen £1pa to run) and I will > migrate everything to xubuntu (possibly one to ubuntustudio if that > will not force Unity as a DE) and see how we go from there. > Tom te tom te tom > I don't have experience with Mint but perhaps Mint - debian could be the answer, it seems to have the ease of installing 3rd party stuff, without the issues that ubuntu comes with. for a family file server etc. I am sure most people here would suggest Debian, you can run purely free software without the issues that closed source software adds ( bugs, security problems etc) But you don't need openGL or nvidia support on a server. Just a thought Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq