Guess the three of us are among the rare breed that actually like Unity in Ubuntu :-)

I actually like the fact Ubuntu uses Unity, where as Mint doesn't. It is a nice factor that helps create a distinction between the two OS distros rather than one going "oh Mint is just Ubuntu jr." or what have you. I realize no one actually says that, but I was using it as an example. :P The more I use Linux the more I tend to enjoy it, regardless of what flavour it may be. :)

I actually always liked Unity for it's efficient use of screen space. Not a factor on my desktop, but pretty much all my applications ran in fullscreen on my 10'' netbook, where it does make a difference.

I haven't had a chance to give Mint a try. Well, that is not really an excuse actually. It is just that even after several years (since 2007) of using Linux I still have not really escaped from my newbie status, and since I find much comfort in Ubuntu it is rather hard for me to give other distros a try. My other Linux distros are mostly just PCLinuxOS and Puppy Linux, but even with them I did not spend as much time as I am with Ubuntu.

Funny thing is that because I work in Ubuntu everyday, the other day when I had to work with this Windows 7 laptop and I almost could not find my way in that OS at all. I guess I am way too attached to Ubuntu right now :-)

You could just try out other distros of Ubuntu to not venture too far from where you feel comfortable, like XUbuntu, Kubuntu, eeeh... list.

Oh I did use Xubuntu for several months a couple of years ago because my older laptop was unable to run Ubuntu at the time.

EDIT: sorry for derailing this thread :-)

Haha... thread derailment! haha.

I'm about to try a lower resolution but I'm getting increasingly convinced it's compiz beryl... but I don't know how to turn it off temporarily...

I tried to drop it to 1024x768 but the game won't take the resolution change. It's defaulting to 1280x720. Oh well.

I remember playing Bastion in Ubuntu a few months back before AMD irritatingly pulled support for my graphics card from their proprietary driver and back then I seem to remember that the framerate was pretty decent. I haven't tried it with the open source driver yet.

I wasn't enjoying the game much myself, but I have a hard time figuring out if it's the game I don't like or it's because it's making me feel sick.

Finished the game... wasn't that great... I'm not a real fan of hack & slash anyway so ^^'....

You realize that studio is a team of like 5 people, right? It's Linux, if you insist in running the game in Linux, follow the Linux way and seek community support. Certainly there must be areas dedicated to the HIB ports of games.

If anyone cares to know, the issue is fixed with the driver update.

I'm...not the only one?