View Poll Results: Good idea to make performance a priority in 13.04

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Thread: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

  1. #21
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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    I think they need to dedicate 13.04 to finding a new DE for default.

    They at least need to start working on getting rid of that old corroded Compiz. Compiz was awesome in its day, but then again, so was Windows 3.11.
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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by spaceshipguy View Post
    Fix the heat issue.
    Laptops are melting out there.
    Nobody likes an OS that kills their laptop.
    Heat issue? My ThinkPad never exceeds about 55 C... Most of the time it runs at 45....

    I think it's more about the design of the laptop itself, and how hard you push them.

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    I've never had a laptop overheat on me either. And as much as I hate Precise Pangolin, it's never caused an issue with any of the desktops or laptops that I've used them in... I just don't like it because it's weird and looks a LOT like Apple.

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    I've never had a heating problem either, but I mostly agree with the original poster. I think something like what Apple did with snow Leopard wouldn't be out of place. Rewrite things, leaving mostly the same functionality, but clean out the clutter and add consistency.

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Not to minimize what Canonical and other Ubuntu developers do, but if you've been around for a few years you tend to notice that Ubuntu release focuses on depend as much on what upstream developers are doing as what the Ubuntu project does.

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by spaceshipguy View Post
    Fix the heat issue.
    Laptops are melting out there.
    Nobody likes an OS that kills their laptop.
    +1 from me!

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by lykwydchykyn View Post
    Not to minimize what Canonical and other Ubuntu developers do, but if you've been around for a few years you tend to notice that Ubuntu release focuses on depend as much on what upstream developers are doing as what the Ubuntu project does.
    True. But to give them a little lift again, since Unity came out, they actually are part of upstream now.

    Not that that makes Unity any better of a DE.
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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by S2UIRR3L View Post
    2: They release a new XFCE that incredibly, stays the same for us old farts who don't like the new Unity desktop environment.
    I doubt you will see any major changes in xfce. xfce 4.10 which will be in xubuntu 12.10 will also be in 13.04. Even if xfce 4.12 makes it to 13.04 there won't be much changes.
    I don't think xfce is gonna change much in the next couple of years interface wise.

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by forrestcupp View Post
    True. But to give them a little lift again, since Unity came out, they actually are part of upstream now.

    Not that that makes Unity any better of a DE.
    True, and of course there's Upstart as well; but my main point is, a "performance-focused" release would almost certainly involve mainly upstream, low-level work (kernel, libc, X11, GTK, Compiz, drivers, etc).

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    Re: 13.04 should be dedicated to performance.

    Quote Originally Posted by kaldor View Post
    Prior to Natty, I'd simply disable desktop effects whenever I decided to do some gaming.
    A reason why I just ran with disabled effects all the time.

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