11 Jul
2012
11 Jul
'12
9:28 p.m.
On 07/11/2012 04:28 AM, James Harkins wrote:
From: david
Neither my wife nor I found Unity at all user friendly. When I tried it
on my laptop, it wouldn't enable any of the compositing effects, I guess
the 8-year old Intel video hardware just isn't up to snuff anymore.
Actually, there's 2 versions of Unity now. One uses 3D acceleration
(assuming hardware/driver supports such). The other is Unity 2D. It is
noticeably faster than 3D on old hardware.
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David
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Unity is default for Ubuntu 12.04. You can
install XFCE from the
repositories and use it instead.
Ditching Unity is one of the first things I did after the upgrade,
not only because of the CPU-hungry compositing effects but also, I
couldn't find anything. "User-friendly" my *** ;-> So now I'm
running Gnome Classic (no effects).