I have tested four different types of graphic cards running Unity using
Intel Core 2 Processors and found this:

- AMD64 edition performs so much slower than i386 one, and it's more
noticeable when playing Adobe Flash videos.

- The Unity interface has some glitches using Nvidia GeForce 8500GT with
nouveau drivers, and performs somehow slow with the propiertary ones due
to insuficient graphic procesing power.

- Intel G33 and ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 perform slow due to
insuficient graphic procesing power.

- Using xorg drivers, ATI Radeon HD5750 performs somehow slow under
32-bits edition and very slow under the 64-bits. Using fglrx, performs
very slow in any case.


So I conclude:

- It will be very difficult to end users to know at this time which
graphics procesor to buy, since these tests suggest lots of cards are
experiencing issues right now and it's not very obvious which of them
are before buying.

- It is better for me to stay using Ubuntu 12.04 in almost two of three
computers I have, specially when derivatives as Xubuntu have many bugs
at this time.

- This is a big thread for Ubuntu and will decrease its adoption by a
lot, since it concers for many people a critical part of the operating
system: the interface.

- And the most important: Ubuntu livecircle must improve to stop these
big issues to happen to time to time. Perhaps developers of many Debian
packages are only interested in finding bugs just before next Debian
release rather than Ubuntu's ones, so these packages enter deeply
untested into the final version of Ubuntu.

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