[clue] Impressions on 11.04?

[adam bultman]

I have Ubuntu 11.04 on my new work laptop; Unity won't run because of
the way that my laptop's video cards are configured.  It has the Nvidia
optimus thing or whatever, so the Intel card is primary, and the Nvidia
card is used for 3D applications (kind of like the Voodoo2, I guess.) 
Linux doesn't appreciate the optimus stuff, so I use ACPI to disable the
card so it doesn't suck juice and generate useless heat.

Regarding Ward's comment about 'overhead': There's not much overhead
that I noticed. Most of the 'overhead' I notice would be from 
whole-disk encryption or home directory encryption; otherwise all my
systems are pretty zippy. Of course, on my primary workstation at work..

grep processor /proc/cpuinfo  |wc -l
4


free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            21         21          0          0          0         12
-/+ buffers/cache:          8         13



I'm not worried about "overhead".  I have CPU cycles to spare.  Even
allocating 4G of RAM to my VirtualBox windows VM, I have RAM to spare.


Ubuntu is *easy*.  That's the beauty. I spend more time working than I
do tweaking things.  That's a good thing, for me anyway.

Adam


On 04/29/2011 11:28 AM, marcus hall wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:06:52PM -0600, Chris Ernst wrote:
>> My only criticism (along with just about everyone) is the Unity
>> interface.  I played with it a little, just to try it out, but I just
>> hated it.  It was too limiting and most of the functionality I was used
>> to just wasn't there.  Just switch to the classic desktop and you'll
>> have a pretty standard Gnome environment (or install whatever desktop
>> you want, of course).
> >From what I read, the "standard Gnome environment" in Gnome 3 (due in
> Fedora 15 I think) is pretty much a shocker as well..  I'm planning for
> the potential need to shift to Xfce just in case..
>
> marcus hall
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Adam