Hi Alkis, That settles it, Mate it is. Do I want 1.12 or the newer 1.14,
the former is what downloads from Mate's web page when I download the
arch64 version but there's an update, apparently:
https://ubuntu-mate.org/blog/mate-desktop-114-for-xenial-xerus/.
Thanks,
David
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 4:18 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos <alk...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I haven't tried the low graphics mode.
>
> I'm guessing that it won't be used at all in fat clients, since they run
> unity locally and not remotely. So the normal graphics mode will be used.
>
> It should help in thin clients, but I don't know how much, since it'll
> still be using the slow llvmpipe.
>
> Cheers,
> Alkis
>
>
> On 17/08/2016 04:57 πμ, David Groos wrote:
> > Hi LTSP folks!
> >
> > First post here. I recently saw on ubuntu.com <http://ubuntu.com>
> > website (link with pertinent text pasted below) in their announcement of
> > 16.04.1. Wonder how Unity under low graphics mode works compared to
> > Mate. Am leaning towards Mate since it's quick AND used in Greek schools
> > (so more supported). But, students do like Unity. Anyone know how these
> > compare for LTSP-pnp (will be using FAT clients)? I'm wondering about
> > speed and reliability.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David G
> >
> >
> >
> > From:
> > https://insights.ubuntu.com/2016/07/28/ubuntu-version-16-
> 04-point-1-is-out/
> >
> > Low graphics mode
> > An interesting improvement for users of older hardware, those who might
> > access their machines over a remote-desktop connection or users of
> > virtual machines. We have been working on improving the optimisations
> > for lower powered graphics hardware or software backed rendering. The
> > Unity 7 desktop makes use of modern graphics hardware to display desktop
> > components such as the dash and to provide visual enhancements to the
> > daily operation of the desktop. In order to speed up the rendering of
> > the desktop on less powerful machines we have reduced or removed a lot
> > of the animations and blur effects. Low graphics mode has always been
> > included in Unity 7 but we are now a being a bit more aggressive when it
> > comes to disabling some of these effects. Unity 7 will automatically
> > detect if your hardware is supported for the full experience and if not
> > it will enable low graphics mode. Users can also manually enable low
> > graphics mode but those instructions are beyond the scope of this post
> > and will be followed up in a separate post. Keep an eye on the usual
> > social media channels for more information.
> >
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