I am not new to linux and was able to work out my initial issues with dual monitors and needing proprietary Nvidia drivers just fine. I run the 7800GT and I know that will give me issues for a while, but it should be able to handle the effects of compiz without any hesitation.
However, the new version of Firefox (which in my opinion SHOULD NOT have shipped or replaced Firefox 2 yet), is terrible. My experience was as follows:
1) I did not override my /home partition so I could keep my settings, bookmarks, etc without a lot of work to copy all of that data back. Firefox 3 failed to import ant bookmarks into their "so-called" Places. In fact Places wouldn't even accept adding New Bookmarks, it just failed entirely and wasn't functional by any means.
2) Creating a new tab left the URL of the previous tab in the address bar, that sucked too.
Then I decided, let's try the Desktop Effects, I've heard a lot of cool progress was made. But that was a bad idea for me too. Enabling it caused my 6 Virtual Desktops to ONLY allow 2. Turning it back off, fixed this, so I can establish this was the root cause. Secondly the effects couldn't be easily changed/customized from my initial looks and they weren't anything special to begin with. I liked the transparency of unfocused windows, but the opening and closing animations didn't enthuse me any and I wanted those at minimum disabled.
Beyond that, EnvyNG has really gained my approval, my first impressions were why do we need this? Nvidia has an easy installer process from my own experience, but EnvyNG made it bloody easy and kudos to Alberto Milestone for that.
My other praises are the small things I have noticed. The checking of the hard drives are now built into the boot screen instead of kicking you to the textual output, the boot screen itself doesn't have to kick you to the textual output when starting services or shutting them down (another plus!).
Beyond that, I haven't had a LOT of time to mess with the system, but I am back to 100% functional after turning Compiz off and uninstalling Firefox 3 and changing the link for firefox to firefox-2 (that made me mad too).
Anyways, I really wish someone would have prevented Firefox 3 from being mainstream as that was buggy as hell, and I can't believe that was choosen. But kudos for those who worked on the system as a whole apart from the Desktop Effects and Firefox 3 integration.
Matt
However, the new version of Firefox (which in my opinion SHOULD NOT have shipped or replaced Firefox 2 yet), is terrible. My experience was as follows:
1) I did not override my /home partition so I could keep my settings, bookmarks, etc without a lot of work to copy all of that data back. Firefox 3 failed to import ant bookmarks into their "so-called" Places. In fact Places wouldn't even accept adding New Bookmarks, it just failed entirely and wasn't functional by any means.
2) Creating a new tab left the URL of the previous tab in the address bar, that sucked too.
Then I decided, let's try the Desktop Effects, I've heard a lot of cool progress was made. But that was a bad idea for me too. Enabling it caused my 6 Virtual Desktops to ONLY allow 2. Turning it back off, fixed this, so I can establish this was the root cause. Secondly the effects couldn't be easily changed/customized from my initial looks and they weren't anything special to begin with. I liked the transparency of unfocused windows, but the opening and closing animations didn't enthuse me any and I wanted those at minimum disabled.
Beyond that, EnvyNG has really gained my approval, my first impressions were why do we need this? Nvidia has an easy installer process from my own experience, but EnvyNG made it bloody easy and kudos to Alberto Milestone for that.
My other praises are the small things I have noticed. The checking of the hard drives are now built into the boot screen instead of kicking you to the textual output, the boot screen itself doesn't have to kick you to the textual output when starting services or shutting them down (another plus!).
Beyond that, I haven't had a LOT of time to mess with the system, but I am back to 100% functional after turning Compiz off and uninstalling Firefox 3 and changing the link for firefox to firefox-2 (that made me mad too).
Anyways, I really wish someone would have prevented Firefox 3 from being mainstream as that was buggy as hell, and I can't believe that was choosen. But kudos for those who worked on the system as a whole apart from the Desktop Effects and Firefox 3 integration.
Matt
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