Comment 103 for bug 130325

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Bryan Haskins (bryan-h) wrote : Re: [Bug 130325] Re: [nvidia-glx] 3D GL apps crash X when using compiz due to unmaked ABI change (gutsy)

Nah most users just disable it rather than uninstall it, as with all of
the base system.
ChrisC wrote:
> Well personally I've enabled the package popularity contest
> ( sudo dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest )
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> and uninstalled compiz completely (the dependencies still
> let you for now) *maybe* someone looks at the stats
> and *maybe* enough people will get sick of eye candy
> killing xwindows and uninstall compiz
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> Over the last year Vista has been doing Ubuntu lots of favours
> I guess in November its going to be Ubuntu's turn to pay the
> favour back....
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> Richard Ayotte wrote:
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>> I'm also an experienced user with the same problems. Are these problems
>> difficult to identify because we don't have the driver source code?
>> Either way, the desktop effects are not stable with the current nVidia
>> drivers so unless that gets resolved soon, I think that enabling them by
>> default is not very wise.
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