happy ubuntu release day

Spike Burch spikeb at gmail.com
Tue May 3 23:51:16 UTC 2011


the difference is that the shell itself runs metacity and QT instead
of compiz, which leads to massive performance improvements (why they
didn't just write the regular version in QT as well is beyond me)

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Logan Meissner <favrenation at gmail.com> wrote:
> really lol? not surprised though. Still though. It runs better lol.
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Logan Meissner <favrenation at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I switched to Unity 2D because the opengl was slowing down my gaming.
>> Unity 2D is almost identical and is written in QT instead of being a compiz
>> plugin ontop of memory hog Gnome.
>>
>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Whitfield
>> <whitfield at opensourceplayground.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 11:18, Gabriel Wollenburg <urmom111 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Havign lived with Unity for however many days, I don't recommend
>>>> moving not techy people to 11.04.
>>>
>>> Just use Ubuntu Classic if people want to upgrade.  Other than a weird
>>> Firefox bug which I think was with the Ubuntu modifications, I haven't had
>>> any problems.
>>> If you are concerned about the Firefox issue, www.google.com/chrome is
>>> just a few keystrokes away.  Also, I noticed there was an update to the
>>> ubuntu modifications extension, so that may have fixed it.
>>> I've been running Natty since alphas and I've never actually seen
>>> Unity...
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