Kubuntu looks easy on the eye. Apps respond faster. Two screenshots. The background is Sri Lankan beach in the evening. Conky thanks to Noobslab with some tweaking. Note the ram and memory usage.
Last edited by Chdslv; November 1st, 2012 at 05:15 PM.
Here's mine, looking pretty much the same as it has done since 11.04 just using a slightly different wallpaper. I'm only going to be using Kubuntu for this development cycle as I much prefer KDE applications over their Gnome counterparts.
Yes, I have to agree with you, Paul. KDE apps are nicer looking, and snappier. You don't need to go looking for Compiz for eye-candy as it is right there in KDE. The interesting part is the cpu usage and the memory usage. I'll try to build the plasma desktop from the mini.iso. Have a nice day!
Is this 64 or 32 bit?
Not a Canonical employee just a volunteer _____ Remove old kernels (Ensure you do the dry run first in step 6 )
I'm using 32bit. It is working just awesomely on my old01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) and the new k3.7.RC3 kernel has ramped it up nicely. Very , very snappy indeed!!
Originally Posted by philinux Is this 64 or 32 bit? This is 32 bit. I'd try 64 bit sometime later.
Here is a screenshot of Plasma Desktop 4.9.2 (not Kubuntu-desktop), started with mini.iso 12.10 and with Raring. First, I had installed Gnome-shell (not Ubuntu-gnome-desktop), later also Unity (not Ubuntu-desktop) and now on a whim installed Plasma-desktop. The screenshot shows working Gnome and other apps, Nautilus 3.6.1, Shotwell, Rhythmbox and even Disks. I was wondering to install Gnome-shell in Kubuntu, which is already in Raring, but did it this way. I have in this "distro" Gnome-shell, Plasma-desktop and Unity. Apps are really flying. Kernel 3.7.0-030700rc2-generic, GNOME Shell 3.7.1, KDE 4.9.2 Unity 6.8.0 This is the working partition in my laptop from now. By the way, it is now nearly 4 years old.
Here is another screenshot with KDE, Gnome and Unity shown. See you tomorrow!
Originally Posted by ventrical I'm using 32bit. It is working just awesomely on my old01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2) and the new k3.7.RC3 kernel has ramped it up nicely. Very , very snappy indeed!! Hmm, I would prefer 32 bit as I run under VMWare Player, but all I see under: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20121102/ is - 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image - Texas Instruments OMAP4 (Hard-Float) desktop image
Originally Posted by mparillo Hmm, I would prefer 32 bit as I run under VMWare Player, but all I see under: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/20121102/ is - 64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop image - Texas Instruments OMAP4 (Hard-Float) desktop image I did the upgrade process to Raring from 12.04 Precise Pangolin (32bit). With the new 3.7.x-xRC3 kernel it runs the old Nvidia iron just great. The only bug so far (with older nVidia iron -graphics adapter cards) is that the compiz-like effects slow down with firefox web browser. But with Rekong(default) it is smooth all the way with cubes and wobblys. I think that Ubuntu-unity could learn somthing from Kubuntu-desktop and how they are able to successfully install and utilize the [nouveau] drivers.
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