Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

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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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[draigwen]

I've only just had a netbook the past week or two, and first thing I did was put Ubuntu on it. I fell in love with Unity and found myself wishing my desktop was so nice. So when I logged into it yesterday (for the first time in months) and found the new version of Ubuntu available and using Unity, I jumped at the chance to install it. I don't like the mac-like menu bar at the top, and will probably change that in the future (it works well for a netbook where screen real estate is at a minimum).

I've not had any problems with Unity since the install (well, at first it didn't run, but that's because I have a stupid system that I've tweaked over the years and never works perfectly).

At least you've always got the option of classic (or Unity 2D) if you aren't happy with Unity...