It would freeze after LibreOffice had been open for a while. Looks like some process just ate up all the RAM. Did whether I was using open source or nVidia drivers. Seems to be pretty rare, though. So far no problems with Mageia except thatfor some reason it replaces my wallpaper with static on coming our of sleep.
As for Unity, I checked out some recent screenshots. Doesn't look as ugly as it used to, I admit, but I still don't like that big fat toolbar taking up my workspace. I don't like to see bars, icons, widgets etc. when I'm actually working on something, so I prefer the GNOME 3 philosophy of having separate "doing stuff with applications" and "fiddling with the computer" modes.
Re Unity -- the "launcher" can be resized with tools in the repos (I shrink it a bit, normally) and can also be set to autohide. It is not just a launcher, though, it's a switcher too, and occasionally a status monitor. I find the GNOME 3 one crippled -- it does sod-all. It can't show >1 window per app, it doesn't appear on a mouseover, etc. But then the GNOME one _is_ just a launcher, whereas Unity's is more but is _called_ a launcher.
If I want a high-powered multifunction side panel, XFCE's is pretty good, although still not as good as Windows'. But I find Unity is more elegant -- it does all I want and more and it's streamlined and (apart from the search function) fast.
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GNOME Shell (like KDE) is _really_ sensitive to 3D drivers -- e.g. there are severe (not just cosmetic) glitches in VirtualBox with the VB additions.
So, check your 3D drivers are the latest version that supports your card.
What sort of crashes?
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As for Unity, I checked out some recent screenshots. Doesn't look as ugly as it used to, I admit, but I still don't like that big fat toolbar taking up my workspace. I don't like to see bars, icons, widgets etc. when I'm actually working on something, so I prefer the GNOME 3 philosophy of having separate "doing stuff with applications" and "fiddling with the computer" modes.
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Re Unity -- the "launcher" can be resized with tools in the repos (I shrink it a bit, normally) and can also be set to autohide. It is not just a launcher, though, it's a switcher too, and occasionally a status monitor. I find the GNOME 3 one crippled -- it does sod-all. It can't show >1 window per app, it doesn't appear on a mouseover, etc. But then the GNOME one _is_ just a launcher, whereas Unity's is more but is _called_ a launcher.
If I want a high-powered multifunction side panel, XFCE's is pretty good, although still not as good as Windows'. But I find Unity is more elegant -- it does all I want and more and it's streamlined and (apart from the search function) fast.
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