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jrockway on Nov 8, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hey Ubuntu, Stop Making Linux Look Bad

I use Debian in a Windows VMware host (at work), and it is more than fast enough. The only problem is that VMWare's X server is broken in such a way as to not be able to draw window decorations if they are drawn via X's standard function to draw window decorations. Very stupid.

windsurfer on Nov 8, 2009 [–]

I had that problem in Ubuntu and switched to VirtualBox. Surprisingly, when I enabled 3D rendering in VirtualBox and enabled compositing in OpenBox, My performance and snappiness increased.

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