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Im starting to look at upgrade options for my 12.04 installs (Me & Wife) and 10.04 (Relatives).

 

I have real (Physical) issues with the current direction of Gnome & Unity.

By that I mean: My wife's PC is a FitPC3. Works great - Silent and reliable.

However, Running Ubuntu Unity 3d REALY GETS THIS UNIT HOT - 24hrs - even when not in use!

I'm guessing that the desktop in 3d is activating ALL the GFX proccessing - Which is producing the excess heat (& power wastage).

As such - The fit PC now uses Unity 2d. Runs cool as it should, And I'm happy.

 

But with 14.04 looming closer - I believe there is no Unity 2d option.

For non HW accelerated machines - This is now done in SW.

...Who knows if the 3d options will be able to be disabled or if they are now permanant inclusions...

All this is besides the point, As I will be looking to using a Distro that uses Wayland (X11's replacement).

*I'm not interested in a phone UI mirrored on the desktop UI that is Unity/Mir.

 

We need a new LTS distro with a sane 2d desktop moving on to wayland. Either Deb or Rpm based.

For example: If Mint made their Debian based distro as LTS.

(They would eat a large chunk of Ubuntu userbase I suspect).

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I run Ubuntu 13 on my mame cocktail , runs fine note its got a gpu card but I did load the latest nvidia drivers.

 

What's cool is the package manager includes mame and you get a mame icon and a basic menu to launch games.

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