Oh, sorry. I don't count Unity/Compiz. I thought you meant the general performance of Ubuntu is bad. I would highly, highly recommend you give Gnome-shell a sho

Oh, sorry. I don't count Unity/Compiz. I thought you meant the general performance of Ubuntu is bad. I would highly, highly recommend you give Gnome-shell a shot. I have some el-cheap-o Nvidia card with the latest from the Ubuntu repos (they have a new repo that Jockey sees that will let you use the latest from Nvidia rather than the standard distro one)