On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Jack Chastain <[email protected]>wrote:
> Y'all probably know I recently put Ubuntu 12.04 on my aging Dell recently. > Happy over all, but there are a few small issues. > <snip> > One basic question though - how do I edit the command line call for the > icon within the Unity tab-bar? I can edit an icon on the workspace, but > can't see how to get to it on the bar. I want to set the > --purge-memory-button flag. > > I recently spent many weeks frustratingly fighting Ubuntu on various different systems due to memory and cpu performance. I started with 12.04 and then upgraded to 12.10 because 12.10 had some items to address the specific performance issues I had. After upgrading, I discovered that my AMD Radeon graphics card was not supported by either the open source or closed source driver that 12.10 required - which caused yet more performance issues. In the end, I found out that the graphics driver requirements were due to Ubuntu Unity. Unity uses a lot of cool nifty features which simply don't on older cards. At which point I started looking at alternative desktop managers, but they all had various integration issues or were no longer supported so various additional applications would fail because they expected a more up to date windows manager. Until I discovered MATE. MATE is part of Linux Mint and is based on the old Ubuntu Gnome desktop Installing MATE on Ubuntu halfway solved my problem - but I was still in requirements hell with various apps. Going back to scratch, I downloaded and installed Linux Mint MATE edition - so that all my default package repositories would 'just work' - and it was GREAT. I eventually decided to give the Cinammon edition of Linux Mint a try. Cinammon is Mint's next generation equivalent of Unity - so I expected it to have the same problems. Ironically, it's been working fine so I now have enough eye candy to make me happy and better performance. I highly recommend Linux Mint - preferably installing both MATE and Cinnamon so you can swap between them. The latest Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu 12.04. -Gary
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