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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:Remember that thread from the other day... by davester666 · · Score: 1, Troll

    For small values of "useable"

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  2. Re:Two statements: by Anne+Thwacks · · 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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