Some questions about the switch to Unity in 11.04

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 13:15 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Thursday, October 28, 2010 12:57 PM, Tom H wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Anthony Papillion<papillion at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >
> >> 1. Does running Unity really mean I will not be able to trade out my
> >> desktops? What happens if I don't like it and want to use XFCE instead?
> >> Someone said, because of the tight Mutter connection, I won't be able to.
> >
> > AFAIK, 11.04'll use compiz not mutter.
> >
> 
> mutter...I've heard about compiz but mutter...
> 
> 
> >
> >> 2. What kind of performance hit can we reasonably expect? I'm running
> >> older hardware (1.6Ghz dual core AMD Sempron with 3GB memory). Will I
> >> need to abandon Ubuntu or will my hardware man up and make it?
> >
> > Can you run compiz?
> 
> All you losers with Intel graphics can go home. Too bad that goes for 
> you ATI losers too.

That means you'll be stuck with us nVidia users for friends. Sure you
want to divorce the rest of the group like that?? <chuckles> Ric


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