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Has Unity stopped from being a slow and unresponsive mess? My last experience with Unity was that it just lagged lagged on a machine that could handle windows
by norswap 10y ago
Has Unity stopped from being a slow and unresponsive mess?
My last experience with Unity was that it just lagged lagged on a machine that could handle windows seven with no hiccups.
Most people with whom I talked about this seemed to have had similar experiences. In truth I've never heard anyone defend Unity.
- jeanlucas 10y agoWow? I use Ubuntu for years because I had the exactly opposite situation, it runs smooth on the Linux OS, but Windows would get weird lags and with time the startup time got longer than 3 minutes.
- k__ 10y agoI always was more of a xfce guy. So I used xubuntu most of the time, but I have the feeling it's performance isn't was it used to be:/
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- wodenokoto 10y agoDo you talk to people in real life about unity? I have never met a person who called unity slow and unresponsive, but I always read that complaint online. My dad uses it full time at home and consider it just as user friendly as the windows he uses at work. I used it on my laptop 7 years ago, and every other update had hardware compatibility quirks. But unless I used the XP that came with that laptop, Windows also didn't have full compatibility.
- type0 10y ago> I have never met a person who called unity slow and unresponsive, but I always read that complaint online. Well everything is relative I guess. Compared to Windows Vista, Unity is rocket fast. On older machines MATE is much more responsive then Unity without suffering the tweak-ability issues of Lubuntu.
- roshansingh 10y agoI have been an Ubuntu user for over 5 years and used unity. Now after a fresh install I tried gnome 3 and was blown away by the usability and looks. Also the application search does not hang like unity. I think gnome 3 deserves some more love.
- brudgers 10y agoOne of the problems with 'The year of the Linux Desktop' is that last years' problems are still Googleable...and the year before lasts' and the year before that, etc. Unity has been responsive for me on a variety of hardware over the past three years. I'd say anything with Intel Graphics or better would be fine. As a generic user experience I think it's better than Windows 7, worse than Windows 10 [for people who like Windows 10]. On Linux, I prefer Unity to Gnome and Xmonad to everything.
- tluyben2 10y agoUnity worked well for me on older machines (Thinkpad X220 is the only thing I use for everything), however, to get the 15+ hours of battery from it and a superior experience (for me), I use i3wm instead now.
- dmach 10y agoI think it was significantly improved around 14.04 and remember a definite before vs after difference. Further tweaks in 16.04 but you would hardly notice anymore.
- zzzcpan 10y ago> Has Unity stopped from being a slow and unresponsive mess? No. Still slow and unresponsive, more or less works responsively after reboot and if you kill the hud-service and disable some other stuff, but starts to get to barely working after a bit. Lubuntu is the most responsive one from the Ubuntu family I think.
- Shorel 10y agoIt is much better now than it was in 12.04.
- plouc 10y agoIt used to be pretty bad indeed a few release ago. It's now very fast and smooth! You just need to learn and use a few shortcuts to make Unity very efficient.