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On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 11:24 +0000, paul sutton wrote: > 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 doesnât 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 Â1pa 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. > My 2 pence worth is for Nvidia I have found Fedora stable after removing nouveau and Again Mint has worked for me since Mint 8 on Nvidia with no real graphics trouble but I don't have any graphics hungry apps! -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq