As my hardware is getting old I start living the
usual “Upgrade season” with more anxiety than eagerness. The
question “Will the computer still work with the new release”
becomes every year more fundamental and eventually I enter in a sort
of “No-news-good-news” spirit where shorter new features list are
welcomed while every novelty is looked with suspicious.
So I downloaded
the newly released Ubuntu-Gnome 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) in order to test
it on my old netbook mostly to see if it would continue working
properly after being upgraded.
The test
I booted the EEEPC from my USB disk and, after a
quite short boot time, I've been taken to the usual “Install or Try
it” welcome screen:
I proceeded so with my tests: the system appear to
be functional and usable but not so smooth and responsive. The same
feeling I have when I'm using the current version, that brought my
into testing alternative lightweight desktops like LXDE.
Not everything works …
Unfortunately, Ubuntu-Gnome 15.04, presented also
some problem in refreshing graphics. The problem is particularly
visible while rendering the activities and the application views.
Problems like this are not uncommon while testing a
“Beta 1” release, April final release might not show this defect
at all. Still it makes me to seriously think about abandoning, on the
EEEPC, Gnome-Shell for a more lightweight desktop engine.
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