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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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Solution: by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 05:22 · Score: 0, Troll

no DE + minimal WM.
Re:Remember that thread from the other day... by davester666 · 2012-09-13 05:29 · Score: 1, Troll

For small values of "useable"

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Re:Two statements: by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-13 05:47 · Score: 0, Troll

Linux advocate:
"Use what you bloody want, I'm busy."
Prospective user:
"But...."
Linux advocate:
"Look there's a man over there that will take your money, go talk to him."
Prospective user:
"But yours is free."
Linux advocate:
"No it Free. Now piss off."
Re:Two statements: by Anne+Thwacks · 2012-09-13 07:23 · Score: 1, Troll

Perhaps, but, on the basis of 20 years of experience, it is almost certainly broken in some fashion.

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