{"id":2697,"date":"2013-05-12T06:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2013-05-12T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T10:40:49","slug":"ubuntu-13-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2697","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu 13.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>ast week, I triggered the apt-distupgrade<\/em> on both my \"\"<\/a> Ubuntu laptops which effectively downloaded Ubuntu 13.04 (“Raring Ringtail”) to these machines. This was actually sort of unexpected as I haven’t been really following Ubuntu’s latest efforts. I’m aware of Canonical’s push to the mobile market<\/a>: their case to bring Ubuntu to cellphones and other devices received high praise in the media<\/a>. That is, if Canonical can deliver on speed (UI) and speed (Roadmap).\n<\/p>\n

The reason why I bring up Ubuntu Touch is that Canonical is aware of the slugginess of their current Unity interface. I’m pretty certain I brought this up in an earlier post (when I installed\/upgraded to 11.10): it’s by default, a memory hog. What keeps me switching back to KDE or say, Gnome 3 is that Unity is heavily supported by Canonical. This is the main reason what keeps me away from other Ubuntu-descendants like Mint.\n<\/p>\n

Anyway, what I mean to say is that 13.04 is supposed to be having most of the optimizations of Ubuntu Touch. As the release notes<\/a> say:\n<\/p>\n

Unity 7 brings a lot of performance improvements, reduced memory consumption and a great number of small UI fixes to bring a better overall shell experience.\n<\/p>\n

Unity does feel like it has been improved (besides the fancy new icons for apps and the changes to the launcher): memory wise, I can’t tell the difference. It just generally still feels bloated. Time permitting, I’ll check out Gnome’s state at a later stage.\n<\/p>\n

Update 1<\/em>: Rebooted back in Gnome 3 and my first impression is that Gnome desktop takes a lot less memory than Unity.<\/p>\n

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