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

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Two statements: by Noughmad · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Re:Two statements: by cheesybagel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pay an Indian to fix it in several hours then.

  3. Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Galestar · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Type44Q · · 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 ~ $

    ???! :(

  5. Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by Anonymous Coward · · 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.