[vox] Can anyone help?

[Scot A]

Vincenzo,
I have used Xubuntu in the past with very little trouble.
The only reason I had to switch back was due to school.
I have online course work that does not play well with
Linux O/S.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo
<vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
> > Why? Is that because of gnome? How about Xubuntu?
>
> It's because latest unity wants 3d drivers by default.
> I tried to run it without 3d drivers on my pc and it simply freezes or
> is near to freeze as soon as I attached to an external monitor.
>
> I was good to go as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers with 3d support.
>
> And this is 2 years old pc, I can't imagine with a 10 years old one.
>
> This doesn't mean that you can't run it, just expect a bit of tweaking
> with Ubuntu, the same tweaking that you would save using a Xubuntu or
> Lubuntu (LXDE).
>
> If you are still going to try, let me know how does it go :)
>
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