My laptop’s more responsive and web pages seem to render so much quicker now. YouTube videos don’t stutter. Scrolling is smooth. All great.
Have I installed Windows 7? Nope, I’m just messing in XP.
I can’t believe how badly upgrading to Jaunty Jackelope has crippled my Ubuntu install. With the exception of the time taken to get to a useable desktop, Ubuntu on the whole is now slower in use than Windows – predominantly as I spend a lot of my time within a web browser.
The only real issue I have with XP right now, aside from the above, is that for some reason it just won’t connect wirelessly to our new router. This, obviously, is a bit of a bummer. I’ve had issues getting it to connect to some wifi signals while I’ve been travelling, to be fair. Ubuntu works with some, Windows with some, both with some. Sod’s law we get a router my XP install won’t work with. Strange as my dad’s laptop connects fine. I guess it’s driver/hardware-related.
Still. I can’t get over how smooth XP feels compared to Ubuntu. That’s just wrong. Example: I’m typing in a box on my WordPress install to post this blog entry. Under Ubuntu if I hit “backspace“, it pauses. If I hold the key down, I can expect a pause of a few seconds before I gain control of my machine again with a random chunk of characters deleted. Under XP it’s realtime. I hold “backspace” and I watch the characters being gobbled up.
What on earth has happened to Ubuntu?
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Get a Mac š
Why would I buy an overpriced (though likely pretty) piece of hardware, just to install Linux on it? When I can just buy a much cheaper piece of hardware and install Linux on it?
I’m pretty much certain the problem lies with the incredibly poor Intel graphics drivers included in the current release of Ubuntu. Annoyingly, vastly improvements have been reported in a release candidate kernel – but said kernel doesn’t include working wireless drivers for the card I have (it is only a release candidate after all).