Which Distro?

[Stephen]

but maybe he is looking for an excuse to drop KDE and move to Gnome? *snicker*

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England <nathan at paysonlinux.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 January 2009 07:03:16 Jerry Davis wrote:
>> I finally broke down and after 5 good years with my old
>> laptop bought one with a NVIDIA board in it. I am very satisfied with it,
>> (except the DVD drive does not work -- another topic someday), but KDE 4.x
>> does strange things with NVIDIA. Very strange things. So this time I
>> installed Ubuntu instead, with KDE on the side, and I use gnome-terminal
>> now, instead of Konsole (which I really prefer).
>
>
> Jerry,
>
> The problem with the nvidia drivers is the new KDE is using various features
> of the drivers that have not been used before, thus they have not been tested
> very well. nVidia jumped on it and updated the drivers to support the features
> that were thought to work. I don't know the details more than that, but that
> is the gist of it.
>
> Regardless, if you disable desktop effects in KDE everything else will work
> just fine. I believe you can also change the renderer from OpenGL to xrender
> and it will work without problems, and should still be fairly fast.
> Don't give up on KDE and switch to Gnome!!!
>
> nathan
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