Mac/Linux Thread

[Lilly]

Heh, sometimes I'm not a desk with my laptop either, but I find my ways of using the mouse! (Like sliding it around on the side of the chair I'm not sitting in. Yes I'm that desperate to use my mouse!) I just don't "get" touchpads; embedded trackballs in older laptops make a lot more sense to me. =P Whatever happened to those? They were so cool.

I can imagine KDE left a few things behind after installing, and yeah, it's annoying the way it, and occassionally Xubuntu packages, replace the splash screen on the start up. If I wanted it that way I would have installed that flavor of Ubuntu in the first place. =P

And ouch, Unity's performance was an issue in my case. My laptop's fan would go nuts sometimes whenever Xorg's CPU usage spiked, even while doing something as simple as switching desktops. It also cut into the frame rate of my favorite games and GIMP too, so that was a huge deal breaker. I should probably try 2D Unity for performance sake, but I don't know if that would make things any easier on my hardware.

Yeah, WINE is pretty awesome. Some things I had trouble with though were WLM 8.5 (even after tweaking) and Skype 5.5 (which wouldn't even render the login screen )

Skype does have Linux-native packages in the Ubuntu Software Center, encase you didn't know. =P I use it all the time and it's great, even for video chat. ^^