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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Pascal on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @19:05

I can confirm this. I'm on a Intel Core Duo 2.0 Ghz, 3 Gb RAM and 512MB Nvidia graphics card and the graphics are lacking.
I'm hoping this is a specific problem with my hardware, because otherwise a lot of people will be suprised. It may also be the kubuntu packages that have problems.
I tried this with post-RC2 packages.

However, I'm sure this issue will be fixed quickly or may allready have been fixed

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Allan on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @01:22

I don't see that. I got a completely new high-end laptop last week shipped with Vista. Vista is pretty slow, but at least it realised that itself and auto decreased eye-candy. KDE 4 on other hand is completely smooth.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Dirk on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:48

Perhaps there's something wrong with your setup or the machine is crippled by the shitware bundled by the vendor. My laptop is one year old and Vista runs on it like a dream. Granted, it has 2GB of RAM.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by mschnide on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @09:58

Like on my laptop.

But KDE4 in a chroot environement is much faster than Vista.

It's great, has some bugs, but it is not yet released (in 2 days ;-)

Great work !!!

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by sebas on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @04:00

KWin is snappier and smoother on my ATi AIGLX than on my nvidia system -- So I suspect driver issues with nvidia.ko. Once KDE 4.0 is out and becomes more 'mainstream', I hope NVidia will sort those issues out. They have been responive in the past fo far ...

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Michael Thaler on Thursday 10/Jan/2008, @00:08

If you have an NVidia graphics card, try adding "export KWIN_NVIDIA_HACK=1" to your .bash_profile and .bashrc. This should make compositing smoother and faster. Without that KWin with composting enabled felt quite slow on my system (not moving windows, but switching from one window to another or from one tab to another). With this, switching windows or tabs became much quicker.

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Re: Beats MS Windows Vista.
by Robert Knight on Wednesday 09/Jan/2008, @05:54

> I'm hoping this is a specific problem with my hardware

I have seen at least a couple of bug reports about poor performance on NVidia hardware. Apparently the very latest NVidia drivers remedy the problems somewhat. If you haven't already got them, please try them and see if there is any change.

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