Re: Unity

I just installed it on my netbook - only has intergrated Intel
graphics but it loads unity by default. It actually works quite well
due to the limited screen real estate (1024x600). It is a bit laggy,
as expected due to the underpowered graphics and CPU.

Cheers,

Rene

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Chris Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just tried to run a liveCD of Natty64 on this machine - seems I dont have
> sufficient graphics power (GF7600/512mb/dua-lDVI) to run the unity side of
> things..
> Well that's the decision made then - Gnome it is :)
>
>
> On 04/05/11 16:46, Erin Drummond wrote:
>>
>> I am using it right now and I don't find it too bad. It would take a
>> bit of getting used to if you aren't used to using an OSX-style doc
>> and menus, but I dont find it slower to use. I actually prefer the
>> extra screen real estate and I find moving my mouse to the edge of the
>> screen to launch or focus any of my applications quite intuitive. I of
>> course added my most commonly used applications to the sidebar so I
>> could easily launch them without sifting through menus. I also like
>> the search feature for launching applications, since I often forget
>> which of the gnome menus an application is in.
>>
>> Unity also handles switching between multiple and single monitors much
>> better than classic gnome (in classic, if you add a panel to your
>> second screen so you can have a taskbar for windows on that screen, as
>> soon as you unplug the screen that extra panel moves to the first
>> screen. in Unity, it handles it all for you and you dont even need to
>> add the extra panel to start with). I like this feature because I have
>> a laptop which has an extra monitor attached at work, but not at home.
>>
>> I havn't tried the new gnome 3 shell though, although reports on the
>> internet say people like it better than Unity, so you could give that
>> a try
>
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