[ale] Ubuntu Compiz and Lockups

[tom]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Robert Coggins wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am stronly considering moving away from Ubuntu due to not being able
> to run compiz without it locking up or rebooting X.  Everythign works
> fine on my Lonevo T61 with nvidia card while compiz is turned off.  I
> know it is a petty thin but it irritates me that I can't use something I
> really like without worrying about losing work.
>
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> I am thinking about going to Fedora, but one of the things I like about
> Ubuntu is that if I need to install something I just run apt and there
> it is.  Had Fedora become any better with yum about getting things
> installed or do I still have to fight with dependencies as much as I
> used to?
>
I'm currently running both Fedora 10 and Ubuntu 9.04, so I'm not currently 
latest and greatest. (Never been greatest to begin with...) For me, yum 
and yumex (the gui version) have generally pretty well handled 
dependencies. Not perfect mind you, but good enough for my needs in that 
if a dependency problem exceeds what yum will handle by itself, I get 
things moving with a second invocation and that has been sufficient to fix 
the problem.

I do think that Ubuntu has a more seamless experience if you must run 
proprietary drivers like nvidia.

YMMV of course.