Comment 102 for bug 130325

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David Megginson (david-megginson) wrote : Re: [Bug 130325] Re: [nvidia-glx] Don't enable compiz by default for gutsy

On 17/09/2007, Bryan Haskins <email address hidden> wrote:

> These unrelated problems may happen to you, but things like freezing out
> temporarily don't happen to everyone.. Your own logic can be turned
> around.. Those who don't want it can easily turn it off =] This problem
> will be fixed with the next nvidia release which will most assuredly
> have to be passed back in to gutsy, even if hardy work has started.

Reversing the logic doesn't work, because in one configuration, gutsy
will won't work out of the box for a lot of people, while in the
second configuration, it will. Why not wait until there are fixed
nvidia drivers in gutsy to make compiz the default? BTW, search for
"compiz freeze" to find people with the other problem -- you don't
need *everyone* to be having the problem, just a significant number,
for Ubuntu to start losing its excellent reputation as the distro that
actually works out of the box.

Stacked up against all this, what real benefits do we get from forcing
compiz in before the distro is stable with it? Cute window
animations?

All the best,

David