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I've just booted the live ISO in VirtualBox, and the default desktop is clean, slick, and fast. I've got an Ubuntu 11.10 VM on this machine as well, which took
by prg318 15y ago
I've just booted the live ISO in VirtualBox, and the default desktop is clean, slick, and fast. I've got an Ubuntu 11.10 VM on this machine as well, which took much longer to boot and is all around less responsive. Linux Mint GNOME3 is a step in the right direction IMHO, my is still heavy to run on my four year old Dell XPS. Because GNOME3 uses the GPU directly, my poor old mobile series nvidia gets extremely hot and slow to respond when using GNOME3. I'm currently running ArchLinux+awesome on my laptop, but I might switch to Mint12 LXDE since I'd rather have something non-rolling release on my laptop since I never use it, and LXDE might be something nice to try.
- agumonkey 15y agomintelixdeeitis : chronicle symptom that ,once installed never leaves. Symptoms : sudden urge in speed and featherness. Has been observered every 12 months for the few last years. Scientist weren't willing to bet this phenomenon could reappear in 2012 but they should have. <o/
- w1ntermute 15y agoI've got some people running Lubuntu (LXDE + Ubuntu), but I think I'll gradually switch them over to LXDE Mint, since it seems like a much more cohesive experience.
- prg318 15y agoOn a related note to my GNOME3 point (From the Fedora 17 Alpha release notes) [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_release_notes http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_release_notes] "The Miracle includes GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8. There is also a rendering improvement to let more users, even those with older hardware, enjoy the GNOME shell goodness" I really hope that this GNOME 3.4 improvement is an upstream improvement, and if it isn't, that Fedora submits a patch upstream so that other distributions can benefit from this. Linux Mint GNOME would be an option for my laptop if it wasn't for the GPU limitations.