Is it to me or this release hasn't switched to systemd from upstart?
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
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Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#32good to see Ubuntu GNOME has been kept
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#33I am very happy that Ubuntu GNOME is present. This means no unity for the next 3 years ;-)
At the risk of starting a flamewar, is Gnome 3/Shell really any better? I've never felt quite so unproductive as when I use Gnome nowadays.
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#34I would use this magnificent milestone to raise my hand and ask... Nvidia, where are my native Linux Optimus drivers?
I dunno, but as someone on a laptop with an intel HD 4000... who can I thank for this ridiculous increase in performance? Default Ubuntu has gone from laggy to rivalling Lubuntu in responsiveness.
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#35Is it to me or this release hasn't switched to systemd from upstart?
Not in 14.04 LTS: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1316
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#36I would use this magnificent milestone to raise my hand and ask... Nvidia, where are my native Linux Optimus drivers?
I dunno, but as someone on a laptop with an intel HD 4000... who can I thank for this ridiculous increase in performance? Default Ubuntu has gone from laggy to rivalling Lubuntu in responsiveness.
For me Unity stopped working somewhere between 13.04 and 13.10... (Asus UX32VD).
I am going to upgrade to 14.04 in a couple of months and see what happens.
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#37Is it to me or this release hasn't switched to systemd from upstart?
AFAIK, the systemd decision was finalized too late to make it into 14.04. Last-minute changes are not a good idea for an LTS release that emphasizes stability.
This also means that Canonical gets to keep supporting their darling (Upstart) for another five years ;)
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#38I am very happy that Ubuntu GNOME is present. This means no unity for the next 3 years ;-)
At the risk of starting a flamewar, is Gnome 3/Shell really any better? I've never felt quite so unproductive as when I use Gnome nowadays.
I have never quite understood all these desktop emotions. I run Kubuntu, but almost never interact with any desktop features. What is it in your workflow that requires you to interact with Gnome/Unity? (just curious)
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#39I would use this magnificent milestone to raise my hand and ask... Nvidia, where are my native Linux Optimus drivers?
I dunno, but as someone on a laptop with an intel HD 4000... who can I thank for this ridiculous increase in performance? Default Ubuntu has gone from laggy to rivalling Lubuntu in responsiveness.
Intel, who is putting the effort into open source drivers and Mesa developers, I think.
I think the increase in desktop graphics performance has to do with the updates in Mesa 3D Graphics Library. Ubuntu 13.10 has 9.1, while 14.04 has 10.1.
Though I would have thought that Intel HD 4000 would provide decent performance even with the old Mesa. I'm on GMA 4500MHD (GM45, ThinkPad X200, circa 2008) and that feels laggy sometimes (with all special effect options I could find tuned to a minimum), especially when I compare it to my brother's desktop with gaming-grade video card. Most times I put up with it, but one time I decided to try the mesa 10.2-devel, and suddenly - what a relief, my old laptop finally feels like it has no problems displaying windows, again! There are some glitches when displaying some window decorations, but I'm ok with that, as long as the smoothness of work is back (I guess, that's the artifact of -devel version).
Re: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) Final Beta released
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or maybe dig in and contribute a fix?
Is this a serious suggestion? I can't even reliably reproduce it. It just happens randomly. The problem could be unity. It could be in compiz. It could be in the nvidia drivers, which I don't even have the source to. Who knows what in that mess causes my system to lock up. Regardless, I do not have enough loyalty to Ubuntu to do this kind of work. There are a number of open source projects that I am involved with, an…
For anyone who does have the time and inclination to debug this there are some comprehensive docs on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Debugging - I've used these steps to get backtraces before so devs can get stuff fixed.