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pixel ([personal profile] pixel) wrote in [community profile] linux4all2011-04-29 07:20 am
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Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Ubuntu 11.04 is released!

Just a few words from my experience so far. If you are not fairly tech-savy and/or bold enough to go exploring, I wouldn't recommend an upgrade just yet. I've had repeated Unity freezes/lockups on my brand spanking-new netbook with 11.04 loaded from a clean install. I am suspecting with all the changes that there were things that slipped. I do expect that those things will be cleaned up as they are discovered and sorted out. There are a lot of people who did a ton of work on this without getting paid a cent, please do not think that I am not absolutely grateful for their hard work, I respect the fact that things are going in a new direction and with a fixed release schedule there is only so much time to do work, so something has to give.

Initial impression: I expected to be disappointed by Unity, having run the 10.10 version on my old netbook for the past six months, I am not disappointed, but I am not blown away either. This feels like a good interface for my netbook, I am just not convinced yet that this is what I want on my desktop.

Anyone else? Experiences? Thoughts?
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[personal profile] snakeling 2011-04-29 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I installed it fresh last night on my desktop, and so far I'm not too impressed with Unity. Mostly because I'm used to quickly switch from one app to another, and the dock isn't suited to that. I'll keep it up for a week or so to make a real attempt at using it, but if it still annoys, I'll go back to Gnome.

For the netbook, I'm going to do a minimal install of one of the really light windows manager, maybe OpenBox.