[clue] Impressions on 11.04?

[Mike Bean]

That's my thought.  We have a fairly laissez-faire workplace, so I'm fairly
certain nobody will care if I use linux as long as it doesn't interfere with
the work.  I just don't want to have to have the conversation that I can't
work that ticket because I slagged my computer via some stupid mistake
(loading a package I shouldn't have or something), and it didn't occur to
me, but Ubuntu has like a million respins that aren't likely to adopt
unity.   xubuntu, lubuntu, kubuntu,  well, it's worth considering anyway,
but it definitely sounds like most of the people so far are voting no on
11.04, or at least no on Unity.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:25 PM, adam bultman <adamb at glaven.org> wrote:

> 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
> > marcus at tuells.org
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