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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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supernova wrote on 29/01/12 08:22:
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> Goodmorning (GMT+1) to all. Yesterday I tried Precise, and it
> works very good. I have seen that it is a bit slower and more fat
> than the gnome-shell, as it happened for 11.10, 11.04, ... . I
> guess it is due to compiz, which is more heavy than mutter. Why
> don't use mutter then? Unity doesn't use effects as rotation and
> wobbly. So mutter could be sufficient.
> 
> ...


When Unity switched from Mutter to Compiz in 2010, one of the Unity
developers posted an explanation.
<http://njpatel.blogspot.com/2010/10/marks-keynote-at-uds-spoke-about-one-of.html>

And so did one of the Compiz developers.
<http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/a-bright-new-future-for-compiz/>

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