I bought a HD3870 ATI card, and for some strange reason, using the proprietary catalyst driver on OpenSUSE 11, just by feel mind you, not benchmarks, is about 2x slower with compiz than Ubuntu. What does Ubuntu do that is different than OpenSUSE that could cause this? Both distro’s are using Xorg 7.3 so I am a bit confused. Compiz on OpenSUSE is 0.7.6, on Hardy its 0.7.4 but I couldn’t see that making that big of difference.

Anyone else experience this? One thing to make firefox usable I did is disable smooth scrolling, but the effects on windows are still very slow.

On a side note, DropBox works great on my Ubuntu box and OpenSUSE box, definitely a cool tool.

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