[ale] Ubuntu 11.04 Under VirtualBox

[JD]

On my system, the Unity dock moves out of the way automatically until
needed or requested.  The menus at the top take some getting used to and
on one of the installs, holding the ALT key didn't activate it for every
program, always. It did work for most however.

I have tons of screen room - even my laptop is 1920x1080.

Being slow can be due to all sorts of choices that you made during the
install.  Did you pre-allocate the virtual HDD?  That's the usual
mistake.  OTOH, if your physical PC hardware sucks, there isn't much you
can do to make it faster.

The screen use isn't any different to me than plain Lubuntu.

I'm not trying to sell anyone, but 2 hours of time isn't really a trial.
Put up with it for a week, if it is stable enough, like I did, then
decide to keep or dump it.  Certainly, getting converted to the
MS-Office 2007 ribbon bar took more than 2 hours of effort (for those
who made that migration).

On 05/05/2011 04:46 PM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
> I got it working. If this was my personal machine, I would have given
> it more of a shot, but to be honest I think the new interface is
> inefficient for getting work done. I don't like the mac-like placing
> of the menu in the top bar. I don't have much screen real estate, so
> taking away even a bit of the left side of the screen is too much, and
> they take quite a bit. I use gedit/terminal the most, which need width
> more than height w/ respect to a 19". Lastly, I found it a bit slow,
> but I am sure that will change. If I had more screen I would like it,
> but right now classic gnome + do is superior for me.
> 
> -O
> 
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>> I don't have XP anymore, except inside VMs. The tested hostOS is win7
>> x64 with 32-bit clientOSes.
>>
>> The blog link explains how to load unity-2d, nothing special, just
>> select it at the login session screen.
>>
>> On 05/05/2011 10:46 AM, Omar Chanouha wrote:
>>> I have to use XP at work, so I run ubuntu in vbox on top of it,
>>> everything is 32bit.
>>>
>>> I turned on 3d acceleration with full vram, but when I log into unity
>>> the screen gets garbled, hard to explain but imagine a snowy color tv.
>>>
>>> I have the latest vbox guest additons and the latest vbox. Did you
>>> need to do anything special?
>>>
>>> Also, how do you switch to 2D Unity?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -O
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:45 AM, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>>>> Someone mentioned they were interested in any experience with Natty ...
>>>>
>>>> So I loaded up Natty last week under VirtualBox. I don't really use any
>>>> OS directly on hardware any more - the OS running directly on the
>>>> hardware is a hosting platform for virtual machines. I prefer
>>>> "virtualized hardware" these days.  That causes issues when GPU
>>>> acceleration is demanded by a GUI, like Natty. VirtualBox 3D accel is
>>>> fairly new and definitely needs more time to mature, IMHO.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, here's a poorly written blog entry about Natty:
>>>> http://blog.jdpfu.com/2011/05/04/first-look-at-natty-narwhal-ubuntu-11-04-and-unity
>>