your thoughts on ubuntu 17.10
your thoughts on ubuntu 17.10
I see your perspective. For me, it’s quite disappointing. I enjoyed Unity a lot—it felt seamless and refined. The issue with Gnome, though, is that it struggles heavily on my Linux laptop. Its specs are decent but not ideal: dual-core Pentium 2.10 GHz, 4GB RAM, GeForce 310M, 60GB SSD. Every time I click something, there are stutters and freezes. The menu icon to list apps freezes for a couple of seconds before restarting. I’ve updated the NVIDIA drivers, so that doesn’t seem to be the main cause. Also, on Windows, I can run COD Modern Warfare 3 at low settings without problems, which suggests the GPU power isn’t the issue. On my GNOME desktop, everything runs smoothly. I believe Canonical made a poor decision with the default setup.
I ran smoothly on my older system at 16.04 LTS. After upgrading to 17.10, it performed poorly, which made me unhappy, so I reverted to the previous version.
No issues encountered thus far; testing began in early beta. Prefer gnome over the Ubuntu variant, so I set up a clean base instead of the pre-packaged release. No complaints aside.
You can continue working with Unity if you wish. Personally, Unity hasn't always run smoothly for me, so I'm open to reverting back to gnome. It offers more customization and flexibility, and it tends to use fewer resources. This might point to an issue with your setup. Regardless, if you switch to Ubuntu, using Ubuntu MATE would be ideal—it's the most refined version and requires less power.
I previously used Ubuntu Mate and encountered problems with Vsync, Compiz, and a recent update caused it to fail.
The only issue I dislike is when I press the windows key, it should display all the windows I have open instead of listing installed programs. I’m not sure if there’s a gnome tweet but I can’t find it. I also have a couple of bugs: one where my network printer keeps appearing and showing a notification, and another where notifications sometimes stay open at the top.
I’ve been a Unity enthusiast for years—actually moved to Ubuntu in 2013 because of it. At first, the switch felt tough. I used GNOME on Fedora, which works poorly with X11 but runs smoothly on Wayland. Now I’m using KDE (Manjaro or Antergos) on budget machines. It might seem odd, but Plasma and KDE are quite fluid lately. MATE, XFCE, and LXQT are solid choices, though their lack of Wayland support isn’t ideal for me. If you stick with GNOME, consider the "Impatience" add-on to boost animation speed and the "Shelltile" extension for tiling (including Quad Tiling). I’m still curious about Unity’s current direction with the Desktop fork and Yunit’s updated version.
Just set up Arch Linux with XFCE. It runs smoothly and is efficient.