Ubuntu 10.10: Maverick Meerkat Benchmarked And Reviewed

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I have been using Ubuntu for several months now, and have had no luck with gaming. My 8800gtx sli laughs at HL2 in windows, but when I run it in Ubuntu it lags like crazy.
3rd Party driver support is hit and miss in my experience. The Volume control on my G11 Keyboard is missing the fine control I experience in Windows, and has a tendency to shift the balance control while adjusting volume. HT Omega striker soundcard is also less than stellar under Ubuntu. linux gamers, PLEASE
 
Very useful review.
Have been looking at moving up from Lucid Lynx and had only been waiting on some free time to change over.
Based on this review, I think I'm going to keep Lucid Lynx running and install Maverick Meerkat on an older system.
 
[citation][nom]1004forme[/nom]Stay with 10.04, upgrading has been a nightmare for some unless you do a fresh install. Those that try to do a fresh install with 10.10 stay far away from the new btrfs filesystem which you can't even use as /boot yet only root and others. They also got rid of the Gdebi package manager in favor of the bloated slow Ubuntu Software center and it doesn't even show which dependencies are getting installed so you are better manually installing Gdebi again I am going to stay with 10.04 and ext4 filesystem after trying 10.10, hopefully with 11.04 releases it might be worth an upgrade and btrfs might be usable as a filesystem. I have had no problems with 10.04 and recommend it over 10.10 by far.[/citation]
btrfs is still undergoing rapid development...why would you want rely on it? No different when ext4 was in rapid development and many users had problems using it let alone relying on it just because it was "new"...
 
@loftie & @adamovera
I have Lucid on a 7½ year old Sony VAIO VGN-A117S laptop, and it works fine. We mostly use this laptop (in the kitchen) for email and browsing, but it is also used for editing documents and graphics (typically OpenOffice, Inkscape, Gimp), and occasionally for viewing movies or videos from our media server. All network resources work fine - printer, scanner, servers. We expect to get a few more good years out of it.
Basic specs: 1.6GHz Pentium M, 1GB RAM, Mobility Radeon 9600, 80GB disk. It also has a 1920x1200 17" display, which was one of the main reasons we bought it.
 
For people experiencing problems with A NEW RELEASE...why don't you people file bug reports or get involved with the Ubuntu community to make such things known, maybe forking out some system information so they can improve it. Every Linux distro on a fresh, new release in my experience had more bugs than the prior...be active and help out please. Linux maintainers/developers need as much info of the global problem to solve...the problems.
 
Great article Adam! Very thorough. Enjoyed reading it as well as your other articles! Thanks for the updated hardware rig...though still expect people to NOT be satisfied with the fact that you didn't use the world's fastest super computer, or hardware that hasn't been manufactured yet, or even compared Linux to swiss cheese in terms of functionality.
 
[citation]Because Windows is not a Linux distro, and this review is for a Linux distro?[/citation]
Well, it's a review for an operating system, and I'd be curious how fast I can get in and out to check my email from a cold boot to check my email compared to Windows.
 
[citation][nom]deanjo[/nom]Handbrake 0.9.4 cli works fine. The 0.9.4 is an issue with the Gnome desktop. CLI is uneffected.[/citation]
This is what is on the downloads page for HandBrake, both GUI and CLI, say under Ubuntu/Fedora:
"0.9.4 is no longer available due to compatibility issues with the newer version of gnome."
0.9.4 for Linux was up at one point, but was taken down awhile ago.
 
[citation][nom]marraco[/nom]"Besides, Linux doesn't really do gaming"EEEkkk!. Stop it. Linux do gaming, DX11, and also play crysis:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdv1Um243Z8Update yourself.[/citation]
First of all, it's not native. Second, well, I'll let the poster of that video explain:
"What does not work:
- Some levels
- Low and Medium Shaders (only High)
- Graphical glitches
- Flickering
- Missing textures / corrupt textures
- Mouse navigation issues (note the moments in which I temporarily open the main menu in order to center the cursor, otherwise it exits the game's window)
- Unstable unless special patch is applied
- DX10 level graphics (Very High) unless custom config file is used
- Multiplayer"
I can get to the installation screen of almost any Windows game, doesn't mean it works.
 
1004forme:
I don't ever do upgrades, I have always done fresh installs. OS upgrades make me nervous, and this is my experience with Windows as well. Btrfs is not the default, EXT4 still is. And for good reason, btrfs was supposed to be the default, but it does not work - I tried it as well, it's still crap right now.
 
I just use Ubuntu with VirtualBox for the ocassions when I need stuff that's better handled with a native UNIX core (ssh, post script viewing, etc). I gave up a long time ago trying to use Linux as my main desktop environment what with them spending 10x as much time trying to fix insignificant things as they do trying to make hardware function correctly.
 
I can't believe they chose mutter for Unity. That was a real shocker. Luckily, they are going to switch it to compiz in natty so it becomes much faster.

I really like Maverick Meerkat so far. It is a big improvement over Lucid which was also pretty good. I can't wait to see how Natty takes off.
 
I installed Unity on an older Dell laptop a few days ago and have fallen in love with it. While not as polished as the Gnome GUI, it is perfectly usable. So much so that I installed it on a 64-bit desktop. I still have another desktop with 10.04 which I was going to leave alone (10.04 being LTR), but using it after my experiences with Unity are giving me second thoughts. For me, Unity is a clear Winner.
 
I can think of once convincing reason to move to 10.10 over 10.4, if the following is applicable to you: you need the latest ATI Catalyst proprietary drivers to support your card. This turned out to be the case for me when I was setting up new machines recently: it was easier to download and install the release candidate upgrade to 10.10 than it was to get Catalyst working by hand.
 
I upgraded to 10.10 and have had no issues. I am a very happy Linux user.

I have been using Linux (Ubuntu) on my home PC for about 3 years now. I have not experienced any problems. I don't play games anymore, so the fact that the game makers do not support Linux as much as Windows is not an issue for me.

I really like the ease of doing things with Linux. I have played around with a few different video cards, motherbords, cpu's etc over the years. With Linux, I don't have to worry about calling Microsoft and re-activating my OS after I change hardware. The fact I can pull my OS hdd and just plug it into another computer and boot up with no problems is great.

Last night I was copying some music to and from my daughters iPod. No need to use iTunes, no issues with what user downloaded the music, what device the music was on etc...

I just like how I can do some things much easier with Linux.
 
"Linux is dead platform"
Omg, there are more devices sold with Linux then Windows nowdays. Just think about Android...
 
[citation][nom]lradunovic77[/nom]Linux is dead platform and waste of time. Go install .NET and learn programming, much more useful then borking with Linux.[/citation]

In what universe is Linux even close do dead? Several mobile OS'es are Linux based (Android, PalmOS,...). Linux is dominant in the server market, an industry that's far more important than the PC world. Ubuntu is finally getting some clout in the desktop market, however small it is.

Please, stop saying such dumb things.
 
[citation][nom]adamovera[/nom]How old is the laptop, specs? Did Lucid work well on that system, does Windows? Is this the Desktop Edition you're using?[/citation]

Pentium M 1.8GHz, only 512MB ram though and Intel gfx. Odd thing is it runs better on battery than plugged in. Laptop is about 4 years old. Never tried Lucid, this was my first go with Ubuntu, so I could have done something wrong I suppose. And it's the desktop edition I used, not the netbook version.
 
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