On 25/10/12 20:06, bad apple wrote:
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
<g>
I tried xorg-edgers out of desperation and was treated to a
spectacular fail. I admit my card is quite old (6000 series) but
what bugs me most is that it's great under Windows.
I really like Unity as a concept, it just seems too buggy and slow.
I was under the impression that 12.10 was going to ditch Compiz as a
back end for Unity but that doesn't seem to have happened - not sure
if that was my imagination (or wishful thing).
Gnome Shell seemed slightly better but still very crashy - at least
alt-f2->r would get me up and running again until I had a change
to reboot. I too massively customised my Gnome-Shell but I still had
a few niggles - like Gnome's insistence that Evolution should be the
preferred email and C&S client...
Oh well. I'm Cinnamon all the way now...
Martin
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