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Intel, who is putting the effort into open source drivers and Mesa developers, I think. I think the increase in desktop graphics performance has to do with the
by listic 13y ago
Intel, who is putting the effort into open source drivers and Mesa developers, I think.
I think the increase in desktop graphics performance has to do with the updates in Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Ubuntu 13.10 has 9.1, while 14.04 has 10.1.
Though I would have thought that Intel HD 4000 would provide decent performance even with the old Mesa. I'm on GMA 4500MHD (GM45, ThinkPad X200, circa 2008) and that feels laggy sometimes (with all special effect options I could find tuned to a minimum), especially when I compare it to my brother's desktop with gaming-grade video card. Most times I put up with it, but one time I decided to try the mesa 10.2-devel, and suddenly - what a relief, my old laptop finally feels like it has no problems displaying windows, again! There are some glitches when displaying some window decorations, but I'm ok with that, as long as the smoothness of work is back (I guess, that's the artifact of -devel version).
- skriticos2 13y agoI'm running 12.04 with I7 Ivy Bridge HD4000 too and have no performance issues. Maybe it's op's hard drive? I'm running the system on an SSD and it's a night and day difference to the rotating equivalents.
- vanderZwan 13y agoAlso SSD, and 8 gigs of RAM in case that might matter. It's probably just that Lubuntu is my only reference point - it's so lightweight plain Ubuntu feels laggy in comparison. Doesn't make me any less happy with the increase in responsiveness though :)
- zanny 13y agoI've been using KDE for years, but have been testing out the various 14.04 desktops to see how they are doing, and I don't know if love bloat or something but if my windows don't have animated resizing, minimizing, and maximizing the jerky behavior just seems so 90s to me.
- listic 13y ago> animated resizing You mean, not like this? http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm249/hrenistic/ubuntu_1310_zps6c8932aa.png http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm249/hrenistic/ubuntu_13...
- leaveyou 13y ago8gigs of RAM :) ? in my experience not a single byte over 4GB RAM matters in linux desktop. I have (Ubuntu 13.10 on an old sonny vaio core 2 duo) 4GB and with all the workspace open and a virtual box with 1.5GB RAM allocated to it, i didn't reach 3GB (it stays around 2.7-2.8GB).
- zanny 13y agoI have 16GB. And I have managed to use all of that, with a combination of calligra + blender + around 5 vms in virtualbox + 3 containers + background compiler update operations + 3 web browsers open all with a total of around 100 tabs at the same time. I find it is just quality of life. If I use 4gigs, I can only have 2 real memory intensive applications open at the same time. If I had 8+, I could easily have anything I want open in normal usage and not break a sweat.
- leaveyou 13y agotrue. if you use it it's worthy (and you seem to have a good return on investment).
- skriticos2 13y agoBut it opens new options. For instance you can mount /tmp as a tmpfs (in memory) file system and spare some write cycles from an SSD. Also, the system uses it as cache, which is nice.
- vanderZwan 13y agoBig images/movies. No way around it. Also, it was a fairly cheap upgrade :P
- smithzvk 13y agoThis makes me hopeful for my future. I have 4GB and am in the constant cycle of "close firefox so I can start my VM, close the VM so I can start Inkscape (with a big file), close inkscape so I can start firefox, and if you want to play one of these new GNU/Linux games: _close_ _everything_". It honestly feels like there is some kind of problem with the system swapping (or failing to swap some memory) or some memory leak that I can't quite track down. Maybe something got fixed somewhere in the last two years...
- JanezStupar 13y agoOn my ASUS UX32VD (i7 Ivy Bridge HD4000) on 12.04 transparencies and transitions would lag too much for my taste. Edit: 10GB RAM and SSD!