Unity - Built for Speed?

[Chrissd]

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone wants to give me their honest opinion if Unity is built for speed or more for looks? I switched away from Gnome a little while ago since my computer run a lot better with Xubuntu, but am interested in Unity, but don't have a very powerful computer, nor a lot of disk space spare to just install it to really try it.

Can I expect Unity to be as fast as XFCE or pretty close to it?

Thanks for any feedback.

[r-senior]

Can I expect Unity to be as fast as XFCE or pretty close to it?

I think that would be an unfair expectation. Unity (and Gnome Shell for that matter) is a mainstream user-interface for modern hardware whereas XFCE/Xubuntu is intended for older machines. I expect Unity 2D would be more comparable to XFCE but you'd have to try it.

[eentonig]

In my opinion. Not yet.

If speed is critical for you, I'd wait. Unity is new and although I have no performance problems, I do have the impression that it's resource hungry. I'm sure that over the next development/release iterations, things will improve. Both performance and tweaking wise.

But for now, this is a first release and it comes with the bumps in the road.

[Chrissd]

Thanks for the replies. I'll try it on a faster machine if I get the opportunity.