Preliminary Benchmarks: Unity vs. Gnome-Shell

fatalGlory writes "Despite some initial reservations about Gnome-shell, it appears to be coming out very nicely. In some preliminary benchmarking tests I've been conducting, Ubuntu's Unity desktop on 11.04 Natty uses roughly double the memory that Gnome-shell uses."

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Re:Worthless shit

[Anonymous Coward]

If it was worth reading, he'd still be a christfag.

Or Xubunutu or Kubunutu

[SmallFurryCreature]

Just saying. People didn't pick Ubunutu for the G, they picked it because it is the easiest, most "stable" (it just works), most friendly out there.

Lets give the distro's you mention a quick review shall we for the average Ubuntu user:

• Debian... the official base for Ubuntu, as the T-ford is the basis of all modern mass produced cars. If you want software versions everyone has been using for a decade, try "experimental" branch. Cat is still under review for inclusion in stable.
• Mint... Do you like companies that hijack your browser to generate extra income? Well, then you will LOVE Mint. Say bye bye to the default Google search page and instead get some crappy branded version with all usefull options misisng (quick how often do you use the "more search options" to restrict a tech question from giving you answers from the previous century? All this in return for not having to manually install restricted packages under Ubuntu and a rather nice menu (which is nice but available under Ubuntu).
• Arch... ARGH! They named it right. Sorta helpful community if overly reliant on RTFM that have been outdated. Remember we are reviewing this from a UBUNUTU user perspective. Pacman is no Aptitude. It is not as bad as Yum but things will break. Also you better hope your package is someones favorite or don't could on the latest version being in the stable releases. Going unstable means exactly what it says.
• Puppy... your kidding right?
• Pardus... you are now just hitting the keyboard at random in the fairly safe bet that you will get a linux distro name by chance.
• Mandriva... once known for smooth, they gambled on the making the linux desktop a commercial reality and lost. Selling linux desktop to the consumer is not yet, might never be, a viable business model. Does it work? Probably but again, Ubuntu users have gone from Ubuntu FROM all the old ones. Why would they go back?
• Fedora... and back to dependency hell. Also using GNOME3 as the default from version 15 on. Yum and RPM might have improved since the days of old but it is still not an Aptitude. People look at Ubuntu and see a Linux for kids but forget that sometimes you just want software to work. You can't call a distro hardcore just because it puts you in a mess every month.
• FreeBSD... right
• Gentoo... The world is ending tomorrow, not that the exact date matters, however long it will take for the world to end, the compile time of Gentoo is longer. Since their leader left it has lost all focus. It was once an intresting distro with a unique approach but computer speeds have increased minimizing the need for that tiny speed improvement a finely tuned system brings. Also, a full desktop just contains to many components especially with all the choice Linux brings to ever optimize it truly for everyones needs (is memory optimization to be as small as possible to fit on low memory machines, or use full memory on high memory machines)
• Sabayon... how dare you, my mother was a saint!
• PCLinux-OS wake me up when they do a 64bit release (they might have by now).
• PC-BSD... Hehe, you are a funny guy.
• Mepis? Who?

  • Gnome3 and Unity are a foul thing and Canonical sees to have swallowed them whole but the sad fact is that NOBODY else has caught up to Ubuntu or even realized what makes them the most used Linux distro by miles. It would not be unfair to say there are more Ubuntu users then other distro's combined. To then say that Ubunutu users can, will or even WANT to flee to another distro over a mere desktop is silly.

    You forget just how many Ubuntu users can just install another desktop. XFCE and LXCD are near perfect Gnome2 copies and then you keep all the goodness that is Ubuntu without the horrid desktops.

    Trust me, I am a nerd and HAVE tried all of the above in the past. But as I got older I also realize that I have more fun coding stuff and breaking my head over problems then than in how to get java running or a new version of some utility.

    Ubuntu MIGHT be replaced but it will NOT be by one of the old companies that bled users when they switched to Ubuntu. People left them for a reason.