Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE

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Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 13, 2012 @05:07AM from the layers-to-work-through dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NVIDIA Linux driver across multiple GeForce graphics cards can compete with Microsoft Windows 7 on Ubuntu, but only when using the KDE desktop and not the default Unity/Compiz. It turns out based upon recent desktop environment benchmarking, Ubuntu's Unity desktop is now noticeably slower than GNOME/KDE/Xfce/LXDE with multiple GPUs/drivers. Sam Spilsbury of Canonical/Compiz acknowledges the problem but it may take longer than one Ubuntu cycle to correct."

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Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 05:53 · Score: 1, Funny

We're talking Linux here not Windows 8. Try to keep up.
Re:Two statements: by Noughmad · 2012-09-13 06:30 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm pretty sure that you can't fix Windows in a hour either.

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Re:Two statements: by cheesybagel · 2012-09-13 07:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Pay an Indian to fix it in several hours then.
Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Galestar · 2012-09-13 07:35 · Score: 4, Funny

Say what you want about it, call me a shill, whatever. I actually like Unity.

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Re:Two statements: by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 07:40 · Score: 0, Funny

STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Your sig is wrong. America isn't doing anything to you. The United States is. I am an American, not a United Statesian. Although 90+% of the American population can't tell the difference thanks to government schools...
Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Type44Q · 2012-09-13 07:49 · Score: 5, Funny

ubuntu is fine one you rip out unity. Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu with mate desktop, all work great just because unity and gnome are a flaming pile doesn't make the rest bad. apt-get purge unity && apt-get install anything-else(except gnome3) problem solved.
user@gateway ~ $ apt-get install anything-else
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?
user@gateway ~ $
???! :(
Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 09:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Now that is funny, a Debian fanboy telling someone -else- to keep up. I'm sure the packages in stable are probably older than you are.