> I would much rather see Ubuntu on my Transformer Infinity
I've loaded up Ubuntu on my original Transformer.
Granted, it has a Tegra 2 CPU, which to put it mildly is not very powerful, but Nvidia has put out the required source and modules to put up a Linux distro which takes advantage of it.
Maybe Ubuntu just has gotten "bloated" over the years and everyone has failed to notice because all PCs are overpowered these days, but when I booted it up on the Transformer, a machine which runs Android flawlessly, smoothly and responsive, I was severely disappointed.
Everything. Was. Dead. Dead. Slow. Prepare to wait multiple, multiple seconds to open that terminal. And please don't talk aobut browser-performance. Ouch.
Maybe it will run better on the newer models, but trying it out in real life was a little off-putting. On the other side: If Canonical is putting in effort to get it running well on the Nexus 7, it should translate to an overall performance-improvement across the line.
> Maybe Ubuntu just has gotten "bloated" over the years and everyone has failed to notice because all PCs are overpowered these days
When my terminal after starting unity is pid 12000, you can guess bloat has occured. Even on my arch boot my terminal after auto login through the x virtual console is pid ~500 still.
Also, Unity uses at least 300Mb of memory, and composting. Compostinggggg.
Most of the inefficiencies in a modern Arch distro, for example, are build around plug and play mostly I think. Udev, systemd, dhcp, etc are all designed to gently allow arbitrary hardware arrangements without interrupting the experience, but cost performance to determine what is available and constantly babysit the environment.
The bright side of this push to get things running well on the nexus 7 is that these inefficiencies will have to be dealt with. I'm running this build the Nexus7 now and, yeah its slow, but as the goal for 13.04 is getting the performance and battery life acceptable, these developments 'should' leak back and help the whole Ubuntu experience. It might just be the itch required to get development focused on performance again.
I've loaded up Ubuntu on my original Transformer.
Granted, it has a Tegra 2 CPU, which to put it mildly is not very powerful, but Nvidia has put out the required source and modules to put up a Linux distro which takes advantage of it.
Maybe Ubuntu just has gotten "bloated" over the years and everyone has failed to notice because all PCs are overpowered these days, but when I booted it up on the Transformer, a machine which runs Android flawlessly, smoothly and responsive, I was severely disappointed.
Everything. Was. Dead. Dead. Slow. Prepare to wait multiple, multiple seconds to open that terminal. And please don't talk aobut browser-performance. Ouch.
Maybe it will run better on the newer models, but trying it out in real life was a little off-putting. On the other side: If Canonical is putting in effort to get it running well on the Nexus 7, it should translate to an overall performance-improvement across the line.
And that would be welcomed very much.