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Madbones
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14 Jan 2012, 9:54 am

Hey!
Im scared... I want to upgrade my current install of 10.04 to be upgraded to Natty Narwal.
Im worried about doing it as my experience with Natty on my Netbook (GMA 950 didn't like it) was awful. Lots of GPU issues. Like black background if the task bar was the wrong size. Sometimes Windows would stain the background with black.
This machine has an Nvidia GPU which has drivers that work well... Should I take the jump?
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14 Jan 2012, 10:10 am

Any comments about it on the Kubuntu forums? That's probably your most informative resource.


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14 Jan 2012, 10:16 am

Cornflake wrote:
Any comments about it on the Kubuntu forums? That's probably your most informative resource.

Mind you I think it was mainly the graphical issues that put me off, and I think that was due to Linux's bad GMA 950 drivers.
I might make the leap of faith.


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14 Jan 2012, 10:21 am

Madbones wrote:
Mind you I think it was mainly the graphical issues that put me off, and I think that was due to Linux's bad GMA 950 drivers.
I might make the leap of faith.
Only had one brief exposure to Intel's Linux display drivers and it wasn't good. Didn't really matter either as the machine was a server.
NVidia's Linux drivers are excellent.


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