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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:57 am Post subject:

I had that problem, which is actually the "snap-to" guide, showing you that the window will be "snapped" to the edge of the screen. It should disappear if you move the window away from the edge.I also had an issue where, when maximising windows, they went blank.
It is a problem with the latest nvidia drivers and compiz. I downgraded my nvidia drivers to 173 and both faults went away.
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AndyBaxman · LXF regular Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:47 am Posts: 520

Utter garbage.

Just updated to 11.10 and got presented with this hideous pile of poo.

What audience is this aimed at? 5 year olds graduating from their V-Tech first computers? It makes the whole damn thing look like GCompris.

I want bog standard Gnome back Sad

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AndyBaxman · LXF regular Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:47 am Posts: 520

Well, after struggling with Unity for a couple of days, I have now switched to XFCE.

What a difference.

It actually responds when I do anything, as opposed to the 4-5 second pause while Unity tried to get its ass in gear.

Unity: Big pile of bloat, IMHO.
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:55 pm Post subject:

Actually, Unity is perfectly responsive for me, even on an Atom based 1.6ghz netbook with 1.5gb ram.
Nice, quick, easy to use.
So what are you doing wrong?
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linuxfanatik · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:18 pm Post subject:

Specialstuff - I rather like OpenSUSE with the 3.2 version of Gnome - however, if you have problems with it you are better off with OpenSUSE using the KDE Desktop as it extends more 'love' to that desktop than it does to Gnome - even though OpenSUSE was the first to present Gnome 3 to the general public! Tnhe 12.1 version of OpenSUSE should be out about now with a new update of KDE with some interesting applications such as Instant Messaging which might be good for twitter and other social forums too. Try it - I think you'll like it, as it is more intuitive than it was when it was just re-born from KDE 3.5! Wink

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Rhakios · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:30 am Post subject:

OpenSUSE also works very nicely with XFCE, support for which seems a lot better in 12.1 than in previous iterations I've tried (posted from laptop running openSUSE12.1, with XFCE).
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wyliecoyoteuk · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 9:54 am Post subject:

reklan · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:09 pm Post subject:

Decided to give Unity another try..

Nope still not for me.. Although it is alot better that it was originally..

I can see where tehy are coming from with it.. However it needs much more polish and config tools for users to mess with.. I.e being able to move the apps bar, configure lenses, ability to turn on/off the single menu etc..

its ok on a net book or small screen, but useless (imho) on anything larger than 14inch.

Also retried Gnome 3.2, and this is getting alot better, listening to the users more than Canonical...

both DE's could be very good, BUT they both need to listen to users and give users the options to tweak, change and set them up how they want them..

Basically how we have been able to do for years...
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bobthebob1234 · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject:

nordle · LXF regular Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:56 pm Posts: 1497

I switched from KDE(7yrs) to XFCE(4yrs) to Unity. Others hate Unity and have switched to XFCE.

If there is one thing that we can all agree on (maybe), it's that Unity has to be the most ironic name for a piece of software since Microsoft Works.

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AndyBaxman · LXF regular Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:47 am Posts: 520

Well, built a new PC. The old one was practically unusable after I "upgraded" to Ubuntu 11.10.

Picked up a cheap "bundle" with a Phenom triple core. Now runs smoothly under Unity 3D.....

But.....

I still absolutely hate Unity.

Looks pretty, but is, IMHO, unintuitive, dumbed down, feature poor, with severely limited customisation and settings options.
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ukshred · Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2005 10:23 am Posts: 19

Seen it, but I have not used it, my brother has it on his ubuntu laptop and he seems happy with it. Personally I'm sticking to kde / gnome on my desktop, and on my laptop I've got it running lubuntu with lxde (its a 1.1ghz Athlon with 768mb ram) and lubuntu works quite nicely. With icewm it works even better.