Hardware performance 12.04 v 12.10?

[von Stalhein]

I know this is a query full of variables, but I would value opinions on whether I would take a general performance hit upgrading to 12.10 from 12.04. I have always used the latest release since 7.04 but I'm wondering whether it might be better to stay for a while.

My machine is a P4 2.60GHz with 3G RAM and a GeForce 6600 GT 128Mb GPU.
It has 3 HDDs (2 x 120G and 1x160G) dual booting with XP. Ubuntu is on the 160G disk.

I mainly use it for general office & web browsing stuff, watching video, not much gaming atm unfortunately. I use Unity3D, compiz, conky etc.

I'm hoping to build a new machine that uses some up to date tech, but that might not be for 6 months.

Thanks in advance :)

[robert shearer]

you've asked for opinions so here's mine...
Stay with 12.04. :-)
You would take a performance hit moving to 12.10.

12.04 is LTS and if it is doing all you want then be happy. :-) Don't worry.

If you are getting new hardware in 6 months then look to 13.04 for that.

12.10 is the first release I have not moved to. Tried it then re-installed 12.04 with the Cinnamon desktop. (amd 3000+, 2Gb ram, ati 128 Mb graphics.)

[von Stalhein]

Thanks.
Yep, when you're on the Ninja hardware you get good at tweaking :)

[Mark Phelps]

I noticed the slow down in 12.10 right away. So, I did some informal testing comparing times between 12.04 and 12.10 (on the same PC), and generally, 12.10 takes about TWICE as long to do everything as does 12.04.

[von Stalhein]

Thanks Mark, that pretty much decides it.

I'll stay with 12.04 until I can upgrade and in the mean time try and control my impatience!!

[Linuxisfast]

On my ASUS K53E laptop with Intel HD3000 and icore 5 the experience has been more positive rather than negative. The newer intel drivers allow me to run the video with SNA enabled. Unity is fast and so is the system overall when compared to 12.04 although that was no slouch either.

[robert shearer]

On my ASUS K53E laptop with Intel HD3000 and icore 5 the experience has been more positive rather than negative. The newer intel drivers allow me to run the video with SNA enabled. Unity is fast and so is the system overall when compared to 12.04 although that was no slouch either.

and this has what relevance to the o/ps query re their hardware ??....
My machine is a P4 2.60GHz with 3G RAM and a GeForce 6600 GT 128Mb GPU.

[Linuxisfast]

and this has what relevance to the o/ps query re their hardware ??....



Hardware performance 12.04 v 12.10? Thats the title ain't it? However on a P4 I would definitely not recommend anything with Unity but rather recommend Xubuntu.

[von Stalhein]

Definitely not advocating anything else than Linux (in any version/distro).

I have noticed that Precise has had more stutters than previous versions (n00b adjustments notwithstanding) on this box and I was thinking that on my particular setup, this would perhaps get worse with the latest release.

Always being an early adopter, it's frustrating that I need to "pimp my rig" to handle the next iteration, but I've had a good run and it's time to get amongst the nuts & bolts again.

Only frustrating as I'll have to wait, not that I need to get better hardware.

I look forward to it - built this machine in about 2003 with minor upgrades over the life of it (PSU, various GPUs & HDDs) .

[Frogs Hair]

12.10 flies on my machine and is my favorite release since 10.10. I preform clean installations only.

Home Build Desktop: Asus M4N78 PRO- WD Caviar Black - AMD X II 2.8 GHZ CPU Nvida 8 series graphics card 4GB Kingston Ram - Sony Monitor.