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[Liam Proven]

On 12 October 2013 17:24, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Point taken, though I believe that is unusual.  Not that that is much
> consolation if it happens to you :)

Yup. :¬/

> Alternatively then, create a 10GB partition and install it there to
> give it a go.

Oddly, and I don't know if this is relevant or not, I have done
basically exactly this and installed the 13.10 daily build. It works,
Unity and all. I have enabled the unity-system-compositor -- i.e. Mir
-- and it is running fine, albeit with quite severe display corruption
during movement. The mouse pointer leaves a trail inside little 1"
boxes which disappear when it leaves them or stops moving; moving and
resizing windows leads to massive flickering, big patches of
black-and-white stripes and so on. It's not usable, but hey, it runs
and Unity works, which is more than can be said of 12.10 or 13.04.

I am waiting to see if the situation improves and the display problems
disappear by the release version. If they do, I might obliterate the
reinstalled copy of 12.04 and update - I actually like Unity and miss
it when running Xubuntu. (This may involve learning how to remove Mir
again. I don't currently know how to do that.)

If it doesn't improve, I think I will nuke the beta, Ubuntu 12.04 and
Xubuntu 13.04 and switch to Lubuntu, which looks and feels a bit basic
and retro but works well and is very light and fast.


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