Have You Upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10?

By Joey Sneddon, Published October 14, 2011

Okay, so Ubuntu 11.10 is barely hot off the servers but the question needs to be asked: have you already upgraded? Do you plan to do so shortly?

Perhaps you’ve decided to stick with the 10.04 LTS release or your finely tuned Ubuntu 11.04 set-up. Either way cast your vote in the poll below and let the world know…

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http://twitter.com/davidleewarner David Warner
Upgraded … now I can’t log in with my user account with an encrypted home directory. Joy…

Luke Morrison
I had the same issue. Here’s my thread on ubuntuforums.org.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860483

http://srirangan.net Srirangan
I did and had a poor experience. For my machine, Ubuntu 11.10 (Unity + Gnome 3) turned out to be a resource hog. Planning to move back to Ubuntu 10.10 if my Fedora experiment doesn’t throw up good results.

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Tried XFCE, LXDE or KDE?

http://srirangan.net Srirangan
Yep, undecided between Kubuntu, Fedora or Ubuntu 10.10. (;

Anonymous
kubuntu 11.10 then … keeps you up to date and in the ubuntu repo system

Anonymous
How is *buntu any more ub-to-date then other distros like fedora or suse and what makes its repo system so much better.
Anonymous
kudos on the clever pun there.
I just think that debian based systems in general have more cohesive and easy to use package tools (never liked yast). Also, ppas are much easier to use and probably only rivaled by arch aur packages or gentoo ebuilds (I’m pretty sure I got that wrong … “emerge”?).
Also, Apt, dpkg, and aptitude’s ability to repair and triage themselves on the fly make my life just a little easier.

http://srirangan.net Srirangan
XFCE rocks! Thanks!

Fatriff
Kubuntu 11.10 is one thing at least that they have got right.
http://srirangan.net Srirangan
Xubuntu 11.10 saves the day! (o=

http://twitter.com/leipreachan T:ema
Suspend / Hibernate is broken again =(
http://profiles.google.com/niklas.s.rosenqvist Niklas Rosenqvist
I’ve upgraded but be careful if you’re trying to run Gnome-shell with the ATI fglrx driver. It totally screwed up my system :) and the open source ones didn’t work either.

Paul A
same problem with fglrx, after logging in gnome shell, neither shell nor unity work at all. And in addition i’ve managed to install ATI drivers only from 3rd attempt, standart driver utility didn’t worked for me.

http://twitter.com/ottorobba Otto Robba
Try using the xf86 drivers or an older version of fglrx – catalyst is crapping out on Gnome-Shell currently.
Makoy M
I was hoping the latest Catalyst will sort the gnome-shell issue, but I installed the Gallium thingy (sorry newb lol) instead. I think that’s the same thing Otto was referring too I guess.

http://twitter.com/kopstukken Martin Smit
Did a fresh install. Used the beta 11.10 after using 11.04.
Bit disappointed about the responsiveness of the amd64 release.
Anonymous
All kernels after that of 10.4 have power usage regresions; I’m sticking to 10.4.3 LTS, at least until 12.04 LTS.

Andreas Mieritz
Same here, the LTS version is just less trouble.
Still, ElementaryOS Luna looks like it could be my next OS instead of 12.04

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
Technically it will be Ubuntu 12.04 – but with Pantheon on top ;)

http://profiles.google.com/kjzz12 Keith Adair
Let’s get real – it’s not just Ubuntu 12.04, just like Jupiter wasn’t just Maverick. So many performance tweaks happening behind the scenes that even non-Pantheon things feel far better.

Luis Manuel Ramos Da Costa
I prefer the LTS version as it is more stable… but the software are always outdated and I hate using ppa because it can create “inexistent” problems…. What a shame to see such great operating system like Ubuntu been compromised by minor but ugly bugs, and the ppa system because the most used apps are always outdated…
PS : Sorry for my horrible english :S

David Moraes
haha seu Inglês não é nada péssimo! Tem alguns errinhos, mas dá pra entender tudo :)

Luis Manuel Ramos Da Costa
Obrigado :D

http://twitter.com/Dobbie03 Matthew Dobson
Sticking with Elementary Jupiter at this point.

Anonymous
but its so crippled and unexciting *said in a long whine*
but honestly, why don’t you go all out and try luna? just gun it my friend … just do it, for what is life without alpha/beta on your production machines?

Laimonas Mameniškis
Installed fresh on Dell XPS with NVidia 555M and system is not booting.
Very disappointed…

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Did the install complete?

Anonymous
I’ve upgraded to Kubuntu 11.10.
I was looking forward to the umm-ing and ah-ing of deciding whether to go with unity or stick with kubuntu.
My time spent testing unity this time around made the decision pretty easy in the end. Ubuntu in itself is great but I just feel the current incarnation of the unity interface itself is pretty dreadful.
I hate the hiding menubars and buttons, I hate the way it has taken away 3 finger touchpad taps and I hate the stupid ghosting effect on the dash icons and I hate the overlay scrollbars and I am yet to find any reason for them to be there.

Fatriff
I’m also on 11.10 Kubuntu, you can’t fault it.

http://profiles.google.com/danteashton Danté Ashton
I can; the Kontact suite is a mess since updating. I can’t make any use of Google Calendars. (Except one per account).
Half the widgets available don’t work (and hell, weren’t updated to work with the previous release) whilst a 1/4 of the remainder crash KDE entirely.
Now they’re going on about removing power profile options and screensavers…
*sigh*

http://twitter.com/ThomasBerends Thomas Berends
Ubuntu 10.04 on my machine.. waiting for Elementary Luna (:
*will never surrender to unity*

http://www.tux-crazy.com Tux Crazy
Why don’t you try Linux mint?

Anonymous
+1
Only Ubuntu distro I feel I can use now (XFCE not enough bling, KDE too confusing, Elementary too simple; for me that is).

http://ghetto.k2city.eu Matej Moško
And LXDE is too great :) Give it a try. Needs a bit of polish, but end-user do not miss anything. Poweruser however can miss some easy tricks that are in gnome but lacks in openbox. Such as forever blamed alacarte :)

Anonymous
I’ll give it a shot then, thanks. =)

https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo
XFCE does not have enough bling? Install compiz. It works like a charm!

Anonymous
I didn’t think that one through. ;)
I think what I didn’t like on XFCE was the lack of GNOME related applications that I had grown so used to from previous versions of Ubuntu, Nautilus being the primary one (although I am aware that it is probably possible to install it in Xubuntu).
Either way, I’m more than happy with Linux Mint, but will give LXDE a shot (see below).

http://twitter.com/ThomasBerends Thomas Berends
That’s a good one (: I’ll try ;D

Rajesh KSV
what about gnome-shell then ?

http://renaldocreative.com Renaldo Creative
I’m installing the Gnome Shell now.
Anonymous
installed and tried it out … managing workspaces was easier but at the cost of the windows themselves. I like it, but unity just seems a little better in my opinion.
Parry
I ended up using gnome-shell not based on not liking Unity [though I don't] but because the interface runs faster. And also I have a large lag before I shutdown for some unknown reason v_v

Anonymous
Yeah, there is lag whenever GS wants to talk to gdm … some awkward situation happens there.
I imagine it goes like this:
“Hey GDM I guess we gotta do this shutd…WTF are you?”
“Ah, I’m LDM, nice to see you”
“Oh, sorry about that earlier, I just wasn’t expecting … err, sorry man”
“No Problem”
*Awkward pause*
“I guess we should shutdown now, huh”
“Yeah, I guess so”
*system shuts down*

Pedro Cunha
All I got to say to that is: L-O-L!!!! xD
https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen
Lightdm seems to me to be yet another case of Ubuntu wanting to provide their own platform. GDM is solid and seeing good development. There was really no reason to switch and plenty of reasons not to, so it feels to me like NIH or a desire to stand out from the crowd.
I firmly believe the thing should take a dirt nap.
Anonymous
The reason behind the switch is that LDM gives them a great deal of flexibility that GDM lacked.
GDM is better off when using GS, but otherwise there is not much of an advantage to use it.
LDM was simply a common sense choice, one that I personally thought would be a non-issue since they weren’t GS they wouldn’t benefit from the hookups with GDM.
Bilal Akhtar
1) GDM 3.2 started a separate X server with a new GNOME session, which meant too much overload just to run a greeter. This problem didn’t exist in GDM 2.32 in Natty.
2) GDM 3.2 uses Mutter to draw the new greeter screen.
3) GDM code base was huge, difficult to modify, maintain and theme.
These were the reasons.
http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez
Best reply ever.
Parry
That…explains…everything… xD
Glaasje
epic comment! :D

http://renaldocreative.com Renaldo Creative
The new Unity is amazing but I understand if you like Gnome better.
Bart Willemsen
You obviously never gave it a serious try.. :P

Gabriel G
I tried to get to like unity for about 2 months before I realised you can force yourself to like anything

Anonymous
Your tone says one thing, but your words say something else.

William Davis
I love unity, but I have no problem acknowledging that it isn’t for everyone. :P
Terrance G. McClary
I like them all. Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic, & Unity. I will say this however; 10.04.3 LTS 64bit smokes them all! I have made up my mind to stick with the LTS variety primarily for speed and stability.
Ovidiu Zeicu
Indeed, Unity isn`t for everyone. And it isn`t for me either. I also gave it a try, but it was slowing me down a lot. I really hope they will make it more flexibile, more customisable. The one big thing that I hate is the obvious orientation twards Mac OS. I wonder what is the purpose/reason for this.
http://twitter.com/marcusklaas MarcusKlaasDeVries
Exactly :P That comment is confusing..
Anonymous
He probably meant “can’t” in the last sentence.
Gabriel G
Yup, sorry I’ve editted that

Dennis Peteranderl
Some while ago I refused to use Unity … then I read some comment the author of which said that one shouldn’t totally refuse it before giving it a fair chance … I then gave unity a fair chance … now I pretty much like it…

http://profiles.google.com/cynicist Robert Rak
I did the same thing. I vowed I would go to kde or find some other alternative, but now I’m glad I stayed. Ubuntu 11.10 is an amazing release and as long as they keep knocking them out I don’t see a reason to switch.
Anonymous
Me too I did the same, broke my install of 11.04 to fudge it and use gnome shell, then decided to give it a shot, and I really like it now, RIP windows 3.1 style desktops. The mobile click and drag is here to stay
Anonymous
The same but the ending is different – I still don’t like it. :) But I use it and will use it beucase, well, I don’t like the alternatives either, I’m picky when it comes to DE. :P

Anonymous
“You obviously never gave it a serious try.. :P”
Come off it, some people like Unity and some people don’t, it’s not that one group of people is stubborn and the other isn’t – less fanboyism, more sense, please!
Personally, the window management, inflexibility of the launcher (well, of Unity) and the buggy tendencies keep me off it. I’m not wowed by the dash since I already used Synapse, which is a much less pretty, but quicker and more customizable application launcher. Can’t name a single thing about Unity that strikes me as great other than that it looks really nice. Just my opinion, of course, not better than your opinion.

http://profiles.google.com/nathanlee2 nathan lee
“other than it looks really nice” – isn’t that kind’ve the point?

Anonymous
It is if you’re into looks, then Unity is the bimbo for you. I want my DE to connect with me on a deeper level so we’ll stay together when the visual excitement fades :o)
Anonymous
I find Unity fugly. Especially with the default icons.
Anonymous
Everything is ugly with the default icons.
Throw in the towel and hire the faenza dude already!

http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/ Satyajit Sahoo
I don’t like Unity because of the big bulky dock and no easy way to manage multiple windows efficiently like in Gnome Shell.

Anonymous
Compiz Manager is your friend then. You can make the big bulky launcher smaller and you can even add lots and lots of workspaces.
Though personally it does get very silly past 16.

http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/ Satyajit Sahoo
But then I also don’t like docks those are fully expanded. I don’t say Unity is bad, but I just don’t seem to like it. And I know I can force myself to like it, but that’s not what I want to do.
http://languagehopper.blogspot.com Rick
Have they fixed Compiz in 11.10? It was/is a mess in 11.04.
I like Unity, but Compiz made it (not 2D) unusable.
Nathan Roberts
Compiz crashed unity within 15 mins of install… Thought I was going to have to reinstall but using the GNOME interface instead! I am a novice desktop user, just the type of person ubuntu needs to attract and yet the user experience is horrible and I only stick with it for philosophical reasons. Solution? Simple. One release per year and focus on enhancing the user experience…
http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/ Satyajit Sahoo
Unity feels resource hungry and the dock is many times non responsive. I was trying to give Unity a fair try, but then realized Gnome Shell has a very small learning curve, smooth, not complete, but soon will be.

Anonymous
Window management in unity is way better than gnome shell.

http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/ Satyajit Sahoo
Actually Unity makes it easier to manage Windows if multiple windows of same application are open. But I often have different application Windows open, and a overview with ability to close windows certainly makes me more comfortable.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FD5M7R6NP7VXXFS4FHYYAGCHPM James
See the ‘scale’ compiz plugin. Set it to lower left corner activation. Its great.
Anonymous
You can close windows in unity’s overview, it’s just a two step process. What you have to do is go into overview mode, right click a window, then click the exit button where it usually is on a full screen window.
http://funsurf-blog.blogspot.com/ Satyajit Sahoo
In Gnome Shell, I don’t have even to click to open overview, and in Unity it feels like too much clicks to do the same thing.

Sorin Nemes Ioan
No need to give – they just broke what 90% computer users think about a working UI.
Why yo try something that is not productive ? – just for change ?
I was trying in beta == disappointing experience
today I upgraded from a perfect 10.4 to a disaster 10.10 in a hope that they do some last minute wonder (I work on UI and Usability area everyday – so don’t try the pathetic ”Unity is the future” – it is not because 90% users don’t think so about their future).
I was expecting a true UI evolution – but they think now in lenses – how to add more lenses… that’s funny.
..bad experience, ..feel sorry for the money and time they spent on something which can excite only few peoples which never worked on production (IT enterprise) ..this is why many of those young peoples don’t understand corporate requirements.
Another big unrecoverable mistake was not to offer the fallback to gnome classic like UI.
They can made that from Unity components. They can improve an Gnome-Panel like element to ease the long transition to another UI paradigm.
What they don’t learn from history is that the masses don’t wanna be shocked. At the mass lever the inertia is huge. All over the world and over the history the most constant element of humankind was Inertia.
Dealing with such beast in one shoot mean suicide…

Anonymous
Congratulations, you’ve proven that you can extract numbers out of your rear. Nothing else, but at least there’s the number-pulling thing.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FD5M7R6NP7VXXFS4FHYYAGCHPM James
You kind of remind me of arguments about businesses needing Microsoft Office installed because it is what people are used to.
I wonder if all these ‘presented-as-fact’ opinions are even genuine??
Why would you be using a distro designed for users new to linux in an IT enterprise environment? You must be a real linux pro.
Don’t like it? Move on, get over it, your negative comments serve no purpose here.

Anonymous
Why is it so inconceivable to you that an informed individual could reject Unity?
Muhamad Asyraaf
couldn’t agree more with you. like it or not, we should accept that unity is a part of ubuntu now. except if you wanna stick with the older version until it dies.
(sry for the mac part.. lol) XD

http://twitter.com/stingray92 Pietro Piutti
Same thing here. I am staying with Maverick until it’s supported. Then I’ll find a new home. Probably Elementary. I’ll leave the Unity/Gnome Shell non sense to those who are mistaking a desktop for an iPad.

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Could use KDE, XFCE or LXDE. You can have Oneiric without Unity…..
Gabriel Rousseau
I moved to Lubuntu at 11.04 =]

fodor gyuri
is the LXDE panel close to gnome 2 panel intelligence? I mean, like changing its background to a picture file or change it’s opacity.

Austin Holbrook
Actually, yes it is. By default it’s a hideous black image (probably isn’t the default in lubuntu though), but you can change it to follow the gtk theme and change its opacity.

http://twitter.com/maniat1k Marcelo
I did the same thing =D

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
That comment shows that you really haven’t understood what Unity is all about… Have fun.
Anonymous
unity is not a tablet ui, new kde plasma active is:
http://plasma-active.org/

Ian Santopietro
Anybody else feel a repeat of Plasma Mobile coming out of this?

Anonymous
not sure, but is looking good and is probably to compete with windows8 tablet ui (u know the kde guys)
unity could also become more tablet friendly but is not there yet

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
I keep telling people unity feels gimped until you learn key shortcuts and mouse tricks. Come on people get with it.

Anonymous
yea, I need the link to that wallpaper

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
http://i.stack.imgur.com/pf1y5.png
http://i.stack.imgur.com/ddQ7n.png
There you go.

Anonymous
Thanks man!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
Sure thing.
http://profiles.google.com/nathanlee2 nathan lee
haha, beautiful.

Parry
Unity is better if you have a performing comp that won’t have lag issues at all even if it’s unoptimized [not saying it is, just saying that it's crap with me]. If Unity worked lighter, I’d like it. Like 11.04 Unity before any updates.

Anonymous
Another person is so desperate to hang on to the past and stop the evolution of computers. Dude, mullets are no longer in nor are high wasted trousers.
Get with the FUTURE man

Václav Hlobil
If buggy Unity with wrong design conception is the future, I stay in past.
http://twitter.com/KiteX3 ARB
Statistically speaking, devolution actually is the more probable change. Evolutionary change is almost always negative, though nonselectively. Selective positive evolution is extremely improbable.
That is to say, I agree that Canonical is modifying Unity in a random manner with no intelligent design at all, but like in the real world, it does not result in an improvement.

Nick Becker
i personally LOVE Gnome Shell.. Give it a try?
Anonymous
I have just installed 11.10 and it is garbage. If I had wanted my machines to look pretty and run as slow as a wet rag I would have bought MS

Stefan Ivanović
Oh, yep, you’re the on who’s got 256MB of RAM… :D
Ever noticed another 300+ distros out there… Use Lubuntu, Bodhi, Xubuntu, Ubuntu+Openbox+Plank. Use whatever you want! Linux world is full of diversity! Possibilities are endless!
No, don’t take this reply seriously!

http://twitter.com/maniat1k Marcelo
I use Lubuntu for a while now, and I’m happy with it! I was a gnome2 users the switch to unity I didn’t like to much… I prefer to use an aplication bar at the bottom of my desktop =D. And configure it all the way I want! I use too much xterm… efect are not my thing.

http://profiles.google.com/nieknooijens niek nooijens
then just install gnome 3 in 11.04 and use “gnome-classic” as your default session. nobody is forcing you tu use unity, it’s just a shell!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UKEF3US77WKQMABDJ73D3QCCLM Burns You
Unity is the reason I went full time to ubuntu. Played with version for years but when 11.04 came out I went from win 7 to unbuntu. Guess the reason was used to windows . If you don’t like it don’t use it I’m sure many windows users will switch the price it right.
http://twitter.com/allesubuntu allesubuntu
Tested unity shell 11.10 it is such a mess and bugged shell. On my netbook I stay by 11.04 and for my desktop I will waith for elementary luna too… :)
Bojan Malinovic
Same as you, tried 11.10 and is so laggy and chopy on my PC (Athlon II x250, 4GB ddr3 and radeon 5670 512MB) i cant even install post release drivers. Even now daily build of Luna works far better than ubuntu. I will stay on maverick till Luna gets out and then farewell Ubuntu :))

Juan Davila
I have an old Compaq cq40 laptop with a crappy AMD Sempron, 2GB of ram, integrated Radeon 3200 with shared memory… crappy as hell man. I can tell you my experience, if I use the propietary ATI driver, it runs horribly slow, specially when using the web browsers, scrolling is near impossible, but when using the open source driver, it runs fantastic! Give it a try.

Frank Cording
I have and actually I’m quite impressed because this is the first upgrade release that actually did recognise and retain all my personally-installed apps.
On the other hand, every time I hit the Super Key, or hit the Dash icon my screen goes black and just shows an arrow, which is somewhat annoying to say the least! :-(

Frank Cording
Well, I can’t take it anymore.
Screen still going black = unusable. And why can’t I add a file to the launcher? That seems pretty basic.
As I sit here reinstalling 11.04 I find it ironically amusing that the Ubuntu installer should offer the option of “Upgrade 11.10 to 11.04″! I agree.

Aleksandar Nikolic
Do tell if it works for ya. When I tried this “Upgrade 11.10 to 11.04″ the launcher crashed and I now I’m stuck with no working OS at all.

Frank Cording
Sorry Aleksandar, I had the same problem as you.
I also tried the “Something else” option and set the partitions manually, but the same crash occurred.
I am currently doing a fresh install of 11.04 :-(

http://twitter.com/regravity Tim King
I’ve attempted to do a fresh install from USB but it failed to boot, atempting again soon.
I think with the issues people are having with this release (power regression, boot issues, suspend problems, encrypted accounts) that this release should have been called “Buggy Buffalo”

Anonymous
power regression, suspend, and boot issues are all previously encountered kernel issues … ubuntu didn’t cause nor fix them.

Daniel Vanzo
So, why use this particular kernel? Can’t use a previous one???

Anonymous
Performance is the key word here … this kernel series are notably faster and stronger than past kernels and also have better hardware support.
It is sad to see such long-lasting bugs, but the art of efficiency is hard to master (started a mechanical engineering programming class, and trust me, it is tough)

andresimi
Strange, because my experience with new kernels was the worst possible. Very laggy
Anonymous
All I can say is that it should not be that way … perhaps a bug in your particular setup.
For me, compiling times are getting shorter (or maybe I’m just writing better code :P)
andresimi
It’s possible, but than I would be very unlucky… I have instaled on 5 other computers… But I use only Ubuntu familie distributions. Not tried other ones.. I noticed that it is ok in the beginning of use and than is getting laggier and leggier at the point that i have to shutdown the computer.
I plan to give Ubuntu and Unity a chance till 12.04, if it is still laggy I will move to LMDE .
:)
Anonymous
That sounds like a memory leak or a rouge app …

http://twitter.com/Nizzzia Nizzzia
It took soooo long to upgrade because, I guess, of ubuntu’s main server being over capacity. The average down speed when ‘downloading new packages’ was at 15 kb/s.

Anonymous
I used the torrent. I hit 364kbps at one point m/
Rowan Pronk
You can get Ubuntu to test all servers (3 hundred and Eighty Something) and determine which is the best for you (takes a few minuets or so depending)…I found this is the best way….perhaps this (choosing a mirror) should be part of the Upgrade Wizard…with the choice to find the best source as an option.
Downloading by torrent is also good for a local copy if you want to install this on more then one computer

Anonymous
reading the comments. i think i’ll wait a few days. untill critical bugs are solved. when maximized window, the dash does not reveal if gone to the left side? that is an issue, a big one.
i’m a fan of ubuntu, and unity also. but the release cycle is too short, LTS are outdated, no rolling release… i don’t like that.
anyway, any of you did the upgrade from the update manager? how did it go?

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
The launcher sometimes doesn’t appear when you go to the left hand side – apparently it’s a tricky bug to do with window stacking (it appears, but under your other windows). It’s annoying, but you can still get at the launcher with the super key (win key).
I upgraded one of my computers from the update manager just after beta 2, and it went flawlessly.

http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Marky
One of the reasons I NEVER autohide Launcher. It is always visible. The autohide is also annoying. Don’t like that behavior. My screen real estate is wide enough to accommodate a few more pixels. IMHO work also gets done faster when not un/hiding. Your mouse pointer can move to the exact icon directly instead of moving mouse left-most of screen, wait for Launcher to appear, then move up or down. I usually have my Launcher pinned with all the apps I use daily so I won’t have to type all the time on Dash. On a daily average the bar is full, and many times I get lots of active apps folded at the bottom of the stack.

http://www.tux-crazy.com Tux Crazy
I’ve got two Linux Partitions on my Computer. One, where I keep my files, settings (currently Ubuntu 11.04) and the other where I try out other distros. I’ve installed 11.10 there and am liking it.
I always do a clean install so in a few weeks, I’ll just copy my files to the second partition and then copy them back :)

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
That’s not necessary. Just mount your home filesystem and you’re done. No need to copy stuff.

Anonymous
I’m still using Maverick (10.10). I’m missing out on some updates, true, but PPAs are better at keeping up with new application versions anyway.
http://pochernin.ya.ru/ Yaroslav Pochernin
I’m waiting for my bugs being fixed and then I’ll consider upgrading. I wish Ubuntu had a better release cycle…

Anonymous
wait a month … most to all quirks will be gone
NOTE: only wait this long if your machine is one that you do not wish to risk/troubleshoot

http://twitter.com/stijnfest616 Stijnvanhees
having only recently made the switch from windows xp to ubuntu I must say the unity thing is big relief. I like it it takes a while to get used to but then it makes so much sense to me. Upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 went nigh on flawless all installed apps and settings seem to be kept. I haven’t checked into a few annoying bugs if they are fixed, like when I opened a url from an e-mail it seemed to mess up unity.
http://twitter.com/br84 Riccardo Bartolini
I’ve upgraded, all cool, but….when I go on Display setting I can’t give different resolution to my two different screens(laptop one and a samsung one). I can only use them as mirror monitor, if I try to use them separately I can only change the resolution for one and I have to deactivate the other one. Any ideas? Has anyone of you had this problem?

http://twitter.com/ErrorsOfMan K
What GPU do you have and what drivers are you using?

Jacek Brzezowski
I did and it screwed my system – I can’t boot anymore… Clean install awaits.

http://renaldocreative.com Renaldo Creative
The same happen to me. I had to install it from a DVD.
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
I always clean install. I’ve had old config files cause too many issues, plus its a good spring clean

http://profiles.google.com/aabaptista Anderson Baptista
Hi, what is the best way to backup my home directory for a clean install?

Matt Eastwood
External hard drive.
Anonymous
I think there is an option in the installer to save your files and just upgrade ubuntu to a clean state with your files.
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
There is no best way to do anything.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BackupYourSystem
May help. Personally I have a cron’d copy job to a firewire hard drive.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TKADTMUYWBGWE3LHDL5WHPDTYQ Gonzalo
What I do is have two installations in two partitions. When I want to try something new I just backup all my files in the other system/partition. After installing I can recover back just the files I need at each time.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
In the upgrader, I always answer ‘replace’ when it asks about a config file conflict. With that, quite a few upgrades have gone smoothly.

Anonymous
Lot’s of bugs ! Has broken a lot of things. Software center is a mess.

Miggs
Agree about the software center. Can’t install things with it.

Anonymous
It shows two skype in it and both are i386 architecture. Probably the same is being shown twice.
Flash is 32 bit no matter what partner repo you enable. I have to manually download the 64 bit deb for Adobe flash and install it . After installing it did not show up in software center . Moreover software center did not even report that it was installed infact it still had the install button. Though it work fortunately. LOT OF ANNOYING BUGS AND USABILITY PROBLEMS. This can be a night mare to a noob who wants to play around with the system. And the ones who just want a chrome browser installed on their system will cry and abandon ubuntu. I have buckled up and I am going to file as many bugs possible and pester devs on IRC / forums / launchpad :P

Peter Hoeg
I am getting the 64 bit flash just fine from the partner repos:
libflashplayer.so: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, stripped

Anonymous
I enabled parter repo from softwrare sources. Then ran : sudo apt-get update. When I opened software center I saw two flash entries. One said adobe flash v 10 in the title but the description said adobe flash i386 v 11 .
Any help ?
I downloaded ubuntu using torrent. I cynical that maybe they had wrong image on the torrent ? Just wondering why am I getting different result ?
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Could download the file from Adobe’s website and copy it to your browser’s plugins folder….
http://profiles.google.com/danteashton Danté Ashton
I would like to point out, if you want flash, generally installing the ubuntu-restricted-extras package (or looking at it’s dependancies) are a good idea.

Anonymous
want to install Chrome? Downloading it at google.com/chrome seems obvious

Anonymous
Well obviously I tried the obvious and it
didn’t work. I got a corrupt package error
each time.
Anonymous
worked with me … try dpkg force
Marcin Domański
Same happened for me, the deb package seemed to be corrupted, but after a minute of googling I just did: sudo dpkg -i chrome.deb, which obviously failed, but showed the real problem (some packages were missing), which was then solved by: sudo apt-get -f install. Done.
Well, I guess you shouldn’t need to touch the terminal at all just to install a simple deb …

Anonymous
Well obviously I tried the obvious and it didn’t work. I got a corrupt package error each time.
Edit : wrong reply. Using my phone.

Anonymous
@google-2bd2dd10f69415ff1c37b9141014b3cf:disqus @lkm32:disqus : I just added the ppa and then used sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable . But the problem remains for new adopters. If for a new user a browser isn’t getting installed he/she might just think that Linux is still hard to use.
@google-57963e46c2258b48135e36ac61300997:disqus Ubuntu restricted extras has 32 bit. If you install 64 bit flash on a 64 bit Ubuntu [especially the version 11] then the performance is really better.
@actionParsnip:disqus It’s an APT link and opens the software center which ends up showing the 32 bit flash for me. May be I missed something but later solved it by manually downloading it from Canonical archives . Again , anything of this sort will make early users think that Linux is difiicult to set up. I have been using it since 4-5 years for 90% of my work [except for playing portal 2] and can solve these problems.

Franc Gorenc
Unity seems slow on my old pc (P4 2.66, 1.25 GB ram, Radeon 9550 128MB) so I installed gnome-shell and it’s running beautifully.

http://twitter.com/flux_box Luigi
try unity-2d… a good choice

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
or LXDE :)

Franc Gorenc
I prefer gnome. I don’t know if you know this but with gnome-shell you also get gnome classic wich is kinda like gnome panels but for gnome 3.

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
yes, kinda like Xfce without the good parts. :)
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
hat do you prefer about gnome exactly?
Franc Gorenc
actually i’m thinking of switching to xubuntu or lubuntu. no more point, click and wait. :)

Anonymous
normal gnome shell? I think not! :P
but seriously though, unity-2d murders gnome shell fallback

https://launchpad.net/~carbeck Carsten
I was kind of disappointed I couldn’t update from 10.10 to 11.10 straight, since I already skipped 11.04. I’m considering moving to Mint Debian if I need to completely reinstall my system anyway. However, I’ve no time for that right now because Real Life demands to have a stable system to work on. Writing papers on a buggy machine, ew.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
As far as I know, upgrades are only ever supported from one version to the next (and from one LTS to the next). If you’re comfortable messing around with apt files, you can probably change the repos and force it to upgrade directly, but that’s probably more risky for a stable system than doing a fresh install.

https://launchpad.net/~carbeck Carsten
Yeah, I’ve already looked this up on different forums. People there said basically the same as you did. Maybe I’m doing a fresh install during the Christmas holidays then.

http://profiles.google.com/andreacucchi84 Andrea Cucchi
I’m giving a try on my eeePC900, too bad I can’t upgrade via Update Manager (not enough space, lol) neither via USB installation (misteriously I can’t choose the “upgrade form 11.04″ option -.-).
Jope to see some improvements in Unity 2d.

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Uninstall old kernels and install bleachbit to clear space. If it comes to it you can always insert an SD card/USB stick and mount it as /var/cache/apt/archives and the debs will go to there.
http://twitter.com/Knef Knef
I tried it yesterday on my 900 and found that, if you tweak a few Compiz settings, the performance becomes surprisingly good, even on Unity 3D.

Anonymous
And I thought 11.04 was buggy… News flash! 11.10 is worse!
11.04 had graphical glitches and small things like that, 11.10 disables my laptop’s touch pad after 10 minutes of use, crashes when a second monitor is connected through a dock, the Unity 2D launcher’s autohide stops working about every hour so I have to kill it manually to get it to hide again, and the temperature of the graphic card in 11.10 when idle is autragous!

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_RDSAJPRSLUVGN6I2E4Z5MHFHFE Debadatta
Absolutely man! 11.10 is I think the most defective version ever! :/

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Did you use Jaunty?

http://yourethemannowdog.com Shasta McShasta
As ironic as it sounds, Jaunty was my last Ubuntu experience where everything worked perfectly from the get-go. For me, each release after that had a show-stopping bug or two.
I’ll still upgrade, check out the new sights, and give Gnome Shell a solid try as well. It could be time to make the leap to another distro. Or maybe I’ll have my Jaunty experience and defy my expectations.
Anonymous
I did and it worked way better than this :p Actually I never knew why people hated Jaunty so much, I thought it was a great release as a matter of fact :p

http://www.martinsmucker.com Michael Martin-Smucker
I don’t know why people always single out Jaunty either. It was a pretty good release for me, but maybe it actually sucked and I just got lucky.
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Just super flakey here. Karmic was amazing and solid.
Anonymous
@actionParsnip:disqus Karmic was solid? NOOOOOOO. Another stupid ubuntu release with idiotic developer decisions. THEY INCLUDED A BETA VERSION OF A BOOTLOADER.

Matt Eastwood
Yeah I was shocked when I saw that my graphics card’s temp was 65°. That was in my laptop PC. I’ll admit never checked its temp before, so I don’t know whether it’s just like that always, but I do know that 65° is damn hot for a graphics card.

Stuart Green
That’s not particularly hot for a graphics card, they often run at high temperatures.

Matt Eastwood
Thanks guys, good to know. I was just surprised because my desktop card runs at around 35 and goes up to 55-60 max.

Anonymous
a desktop is much better ventilated than a laptop, hence the lower temps overall

Anonymous
65C … that is quite normal operating temperature … unless it’s an intel card (0.o). but if you are running a performance dedicated card in a laptop the temp will often go up into the low-70′s when doing some graphics work.
For me, it stays around 58C regularly … and 68C during work
Anonymous
Booting the daily ISO’s got my graphic card as hot as 110°C! At 112°C it eventually shutted down itself…
The final release gets an avarage of 70°C here, 11.04 got aout 55°C.

Anonymous
11.10 sees my fingerprint reader and works with my clickpad …
Lesson: please check in with known bugs for kernel hardware support … most of the time something upstream firked up.

greg wilson
Have upgraded to 11.10 and pretty impressed so far but still playing around with it at the moment. Only negative i have seen so far is at the login screen takes about 10 seconds till it picks up my bluetooth keyboard. With 11.04 it found it instantly. But other than that seems pretty good.
Jochen Blacha
Tried to install 11.10 on an ASUS Eee PC 1201HA (GMA500) but fails when LightDM should be starting (the Xorfg.0.log just shows some message that /dev/fb0 doesn’t exist).
Restoring Windows.
It’s a shame on Ubuntu’s (read: Canonical’s) behalf that there’s still no out-of-the-box support for GMA500 based Netbooks; let alone X crashing out during boot).

Anonymous
I thought GMA500 was a universal linux issue … so is there some distro hogging the drivers or something?

Jochen Blacha
There are Linux drivers for the GMA500 available to enable the full functionality/resolution of the chip; though one has to add the EMGD PPA manually after installation and install the driver.
As an example, JoliOS actually comes with GMA500 drivers by default; though that Distro is not really fit as a “Desktop OS”.
I don’t know what Canonical did in Oneiric as Lucid’s Live CD booted just fine in VESA mode (1024×768) where Oneiric’s crashes out at the attempt to start LightDM (didn’t bother with Maverick/Natty).
I know that I could install through the alternative CD and try to resolve the driver problem afterwards, I just don’t see why I would want to jump through hoops.
Simply restored the Win7 Ghost image for the time being and am waiting for Mint’s release.

Anonymous
I doubt though that Mint will fix it … I mean, they include codecs but I don’t think they do driver stuff.
I’m afraid you are going to have to man up to the challenge (a friend of mine has one of those things … will try to see if you can skip lightdm and do some terminal kungfu)
Anonymous
did it … you just have to do a clean install and use a direct internet connection … from the grub menu boot into text-mode (change “quiet splash” to “text”) and then you can work your magic with the ppa and stuff there.
It’s no fun at all, but once I got it (the grub part was the magic step) I was able to get through everything in just under 15 minutes (I had to look up the ppa with my phone). That is still less time than restoring a cloned disk image.
EDIT: I am kinda assuming you know the command-line jargon to get it done once you get there … if not just let me know

Jochen Blacha
Yeah, I know the commandline drill on how to add a repo, update the package index and finally install the needed packages … “Linux n00b since 1995″ ;)
Anyway, since I want to finally rid Windows from the Netbook I’ll fetch the alternative CD and will go from there.
As for Mint (your reply below) … would just be less trouble to deal with it when there’s only Gnome Shell + Mint Menu(?); you know, less “Junk” to remove to somehow get a sane desktop environment put together.
Anyhow, thanks for your confirmation that it actually works after doing some unpleasant commandline hacking. ;)
Romain Merland
well, i am not so at ease with all this stuff. I tried also to install oneiric on my eeepc 1201ha and obtained the same crach on login page. grrr. Finally, got back to natty. But thanks for your post. I see I am not the only one with this trouble.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CLUOPL7NAWMYC5UAPEZQQNTU2E Ricardo
Hi lkm32,
Would you mind writing down the instructions. I’m new using linux and I got the same issue installing ubuntu on my eee pc 1201 hab.
Thanks in advance.

Amol Mandhane
There is a big difference between unity we used in natty and the unity we use in oneiric. Natty one had lots of bugs. This one is far more user friendly…

Yuriy Voziy
You can’t drag&drop files with new unity.

Anonymous
I’m doing it right now!

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Try it in liveCD/USB see what you reckon

André
I did and I have sound problems (popping, etc.)

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Disable power management on the module using a module option in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

André
I think it’s already off, but I understand absolutely nothing of this.
http://www.alsa-project.org/db/?f=b39cc6b1a7b17ba2f12fc0c74a4beae0855e6d4e

http://twitter.com/evgenyig Evgeny
I’ve never seen such a raw release. User since 8.10. I didn’t like the previous version (11.04) but I made myself put up with it living with the hope of brighter future :-), but the new version (unity in particular) is a buggy mess. Though it looks quite appealing (I like that bluring… really cool) but a lot of little nuances ruin the whole experience.
Complete disappointment… I’ve had enough.
Looking forward to Fedora 16… Gnome 3.2 (not that ugly one with ubuntu) is already quite stable and very usable.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3BEMYXZR3QTBZF676TUAEKATHM syncdram
Very well put. sorry to here you waited so long to switch. I was done with ubuntu after the first 4 weeks of 11.04 release. Ubuntu “has” become one complete disappointment after another after another. I’ve been quite busy responding to my clients complaints with ubuntu since 11.04. complete removal of the distribution per request and back to windows they went. There is a misnomer about new windows users i can honestly say “my clients” just might have stayed using ubuntu if it weren’t for the fact that all there external hardware they used in windows would not work in ubuntu. I have seen a wide variety of printers with my customers, not one with driver support. My out was setting them up in vb loaded with xp or 7. All were set up this way, but the customers just could not see the sense of using windows in a ubuntu environment. It was a very sad moment and embarrassing to say the least that shuttleworth is so focused on the software and GUI side to attract new users that i think he is oblivious to the fact windows users have and use things that will just never work in Linux I’m sure there have been great success stories but all my encounters, reactions with my clients have pretty much been identical, they all commented on the nice looking layout then when it came time to install things like there printers, and a variety of work related hardware they used daily it goes down hill very fast. There was no Linux equivalent that i could help them with.
Lets keep things in today’s reality and in perspective of a new windows user, Mac users already know and understand the great restraints involved. There are generations to come before at least for ubuntu to become usable enough for today’s and tomorrows Windows user. Although i do give mark cudo’s for his pipe dream.

Václav Hlobil
Unity looks pretty maybe for first look for newcommers, which are more surprised than amazed. But from my view, Unity is only poorly customizable left panel (MS Office 95 had similar one) + tragically designed not-well-working main menu. There’s absolutely no reason for needs to have 3D hw etc.
Canonical should reincarnate Gnome 2, polish it until perfection and create this panel or menu like optional features.
Gnome Shell, Windows 8, Android… there is so much new, totaly rebuilded environments, that I’m pretty sure, there is also more and more users hungry for traditional, stable and simple desktop like Gnome 2 was.
Ubuntu could be a safe harbour in this ocean of as innovative as crazy ideas, how desktop should look like.

Anonymous
Reincarnate gnome 2? No. GTK2 and the gnome 2 libraries are deprecated and are not the way forward. Re-do the entire gnome 2 interface and using gnome 3 and GTK 3 libraries? Maybe.
Either way it doesn’t matter for me, I use KDE now.

Václav Hlobil
Ok, I thought old interface or desktop design (how it works).

https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo
sudo apt-get install gnome-fallback-session

Anonymous
Just for clarifications sake, for the most part Canonical doesn’t deal with hardware drivers. That’s the kernel team and other developers. For some reason this seems to be a common misconception.
https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Quite entertaining. :)
Anonymous
Hahahahahaha… I’m sorry but did you say just suggest that Windows plays well with printers? My sides hurt now.
http://profiles.google.com/danteashton Danté Ashton
That’s very odd; I don’t exactly have clients, but I am the geek in charge of around 40 machines, most family and some for small business. All of them use Ubuntu. None of them have had a single complaint.
Hardware wise, I’ve never encountered a device (well, except for a integrated graphics card that hates KMS) that didn’t like Linux. I could quite literally get any kit, old or new, plug it in and Ubuntu would play nice with it; rarely requiring any assistance.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FD5M7R6NP7VXXFS4FHYYAGCHPM James
I wonder if anyone thinks you are not trolling?

http://twitter.com/pjauss Philipp Jauss
Fresh installed 11.10 on 2 notebooks (an 3 year old acer timeline and a new acer aspire) and was positiv surprised everthing works well. But on my desktopsystem with an ATI-Graphics (connected via HDMI) to a monitor (with sound), 11.10 messed up completley audio (skype only creating mechanical sounds), so I’ve gone back to 11.04. I must say, I’m a bit disapointed, that basic things like audio/video/webcam still can create such troubles.
http://twitter.com/chumbawumba_uk Paul Smyth
Step one: upgrade
Step two: remove openjdk
FFS why do I keep getting this unwanted garbage everytime I upgrade. Sick to death of it.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
I think every upgrade installs any packages you’d get by doing a fresh install. Why openjdk, I don’t know, but I think some parts of Openoffice/Libreoffice need a Java runtime (or did until recently).
http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Use minimal then an install only what you want. I was the same
Step one: Install
Step two: remove half the crap including OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Games
Step three: Install Chromium, Abiword etc.
So I just install minimal then build up instead of down, lots quicker. Try it

Stephen Ingram
I upgraded through a liveUSB, rebooted, got ‘fake initctl called: doing nothing’. tried to upgrade 11.10 to 11.10 in the liveUSB again; installer crashed, now /dev doesn’t exist. Brilliant.

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Did you MD5 test the ISO you downloaded?

David Moraes
haha I still have Ubuntu 10.10. It is extremely stable so I won’t be trading it in for this new Ubuntu just yet. I think I’ll give Unity one more cycle to get better. Ubuntu 12.04, you better not let me down!
Mauro Brazão
after updating from 11.04 to 11.10 i lost unity, cant acess user or settings, just see desktop and folder and the up border with file, edit, view,go…
What can i do? I dont want to lost everything i have grrrr?

https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo
Rode o Ubuntu em um live CD ou pendrive, salve seus arquivos em um hd externo e faça uma instalação limpa. É a forma mais segura! Fiz isso ontem à noite em 2 computadores e deu tudo certinho! =)

Anonymous
Yes, runs great here. Oh, wait. That’s actually Windows 7.
http://twitter.com/catdumpling Cat MacKinnon
still rocking the Meerkat (10.10). after my issues trying to upgrade to 11.04 on release day, i think i’ll at least wait a week or two for some bug fixes before i even consider installing 11.10. 11.04 was the first release i tried in a long time that had all sorts of issues and i ended up reverting to 10.10, so i’m a lot more cautious now.
http://twitter.com/ottorobba Otto Robba
Call me a dissident but I’d like an another option in the pool: “Not going to use 11.10″.
As much as I like Ubuntu and want to see it grow and prosper I’m no longer using it (yayarch). I wish they would fix the whole “omgPPAs” craze.
That said, were I still using Ubuntu, I would definetly upgrade as soon as possible.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
What’s the problem with PPAs? They’re opt-in distribution channels for software that isn’t in the repos, or more recent versions of software in the repos. I think they’re a pretty neat idea: if I need a newer version of one application for some reason, I can often just add a PPA. It’s neatly integrated in the package manager, and automatically kept up to date.

Nathan Moos
The problems occur with inconsistencies in the system’s package versions when you add extra PPAs (sometimes). When I used Ubuntu I never encountered that issue.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SLKYC2EGPXS6VVDRVF5SW2WWJY Paul
upgraded as soon as it was out. I have installed CompizSettings, tried to make some changes in Unity, I think this program still has instability with Unity. Whenever i make any changes in CampizSettings my Unity Desktop keep on locking, and i can not access my desktop. Thanks God it was possible to use short-cuts, so i managed to log out. Now I am using GNOME Shell, and i very pleased with it, working way faster than Unity. I think GNOME shell should be installed as default.
P.S. thanks for new Ubuntu 11.10
Aleksandar Nikolic
I did, and I’ve regretted it. Not only does it not work correctly with my ATI card, but it also broke all my customizations without giving me any suitable alternative. The fact that I’m stuck with either Unity or Gnome3 which are both, in my opinion, extremely Desktop-PC unfriendly now forces me to have to reinstall my machine for the first time after switching from Windows to Ubuntu two years ago.

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Well, it simply is not true that you’re stuck with anything. Ubuntu has _lots_ of shells. They’re just applications like your web browser. If you don’t like the default applications, try other ones.
http://profiles.google.com/nathanlee2 nathan lee
When you heavily customize your desktop experience, why would you expect a whole OS upgrade wouldn’t overwrite that? It’s not going to babystep around all the things that you might have changed.

Robert Saunders
I have updated my old Sony notebook. It’s fine, no problems. I think Unity has improved to the point where I am happy to use it. Aesthetically and ergonomically I think it superior to OS X in many ways. I’m just updating a desktop computer, so we shall see how that goes.

Anonymous
Aesthetically superior to OS X?
I’m sorry, I’m not a fan of OS X in general but comparing unity to OS X aesthetically is like comparing a turd with a palace

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Different people with different tastes dude
http://twitter.com/jordanbadangayo jordan badangayon
unity is more beautiful than os x… so your comparison should be the other way around.. :D
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
I boot into OS X at least once a day and Unity is easily more beautiful. Mac OS X is more cohesive and apple apps tie into the overall desktop better. What canonical needs to do more of is exactly what they have started doing e.g with Thunderbird, Deja Dup etc.. etc… just picking great apps and working with the Devs to clean them up and integrate them into the OS so it feels more like a natural part of the OS and not just a 3rd party app.
https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Your opinion is wrong.

Anonymous
My opinion is DIFFERENT, that doesn’t make it wrong.

Alexis Morin
I’m having serious issues with Unity being unresponsive on my Dell v130. This also happened with 11.04 and slowly the bugs dissapeared with updates. I’m hoping for the same thing to happen.
Václav Hlobil
I think Gnome 2 is very mature desktop. But I don’t want to lost contact with new trends a desktop designs. So I hypothesized I will upgrade sooner or later to Unity. When 11.04 was out, I said myself, that I will wait for 11.10 to give some time to Canonical for bugs hunt. Now I tried 11.10…
It’s crap. I’m sorry. Only few minutes with Ubuntu and sooo many problems. First think, I usualy change on new system is font size, because font is very big. There is no easy way. You need to instal some tweak crap, where font changing is very painful.
I thought Ubuntu will be my professional OS. But Unity looks very ugly and “fancy”. Because that fonts and icons in dash are sooo huge I’m beginning to think Mark Shuttleworth and his team have some problems with eyes. It look like they prepares Ubuntu to small touch screens, but I’m not certain it’s right way. PC’s with huge monitors, keyboards and mouses (for real work) can’t run same system as small tablets (for fun mostly). Compromises will hurt both systems.
Unity dash and lens or how they calls it, is IMO completely wrong in design. There is one big search input where you can type something. But sometimes it finds what do you want, sometimes not and you need to change “category” (or what it is) at the bottom. Bottom icons have none title co I have no chance to know, what I’m clicking on. When you change that “category”, search input is cleared and you need to type it again?
There is sooooo much of strange and unexpected behaviors in all of Unity, I’m looking for some other distro. Old but gold Gnome 2.

Anonymous
You might want to look at either KDE or Gnome 3 to replace gnome 2.

Václav Hlobil
I love simplicity and as easy desktop as possible. KDE is not for me. But thanks to this Unity fail, i found elementary OS and that new as awesome as simple Panthenol shell… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o96Swc0PeA

Stewart Evardson
I upgraded straight away, I like unity and it’s family friendly so all is good.
My only problem with it is the software centre being full of for purchase stuff. When you load it up all you can see is a giant advert and a list of things you can buy. I’d love a way to hide it all.

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I’d love it if you elaborated on that. Out of the 36295 available items in the store, 47 are for sale. Most people complain that there’s too few items for purchase. Where did you see those advertisements anyway?

Anonymous
No, he has a point. All the applications in the “What’s New” section are paid. Not that I object.

http://twitter.com/levudev Florian
using oneiric since a2 w/ gnome shell :)
Tomasz Sałaciński
Ubuntu seems to have some boot bugs that are causing a lot of trouble. Because of that, my sound card sometimes isn’t working (have to restart few times till it starts). Nautilus sometimes crashes 5 times a minute. Unity sometmes doesn’t want to show up. Yes, it’s a mess, but..
- My NVIDIA card worked out of the box with 3D support (nouveau)
- My scanner worked out of the box (Canon LIDE 110)
So I’m pretty happy with it. Just need to wait for updates (;
https://profiles.google.com/116073748054291541228/posts Techy8789
Took me about 4 hours on my 7 or so year old computer last night

Anonymous
yeah, the upgrade servers must be slow

http://twitter.com/tommisas tommi saira
I left ubuntu when 11.04 hit, never going back. So no.

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
I didn’t like the new version of notepad.exe, so I switched to Ubuntu. :)

Anonymous
hey did you see the new default wallpaper? ugh … I mean, we could use some variety.
That’s it, I’m switching to Arch.
PS. I hate pacman with a passion of a thousand burning suns, I will not rest, I will not stop even for death himself, ’till I rid this reality of the scourge that is this infernal beast of arbitrary context that the guardians of the Arch call “pacman”…
Pacman will fall. :P
tl;dr : Arch is not bad but I could never feel comfortable using pacman … for he has no eyes :P

Eduardo Rodriguez Reyes
It’s even faster than natty on my HP G42 , flash works great and the open source graphics driver has better performance….
i just have one major power consumption issue, my battery is draining like crazy… i think it has to do with the existing power regression : ( help!

Nathan Moos
Try this:
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/linux-kernel-power-issue-fix.html

http://twitter.com/rsthdn RaaZ Shrestha
Successfully upgraded to ubuntu11.10. Now installing gnome shell :)

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Dude, where is that wallpaper from? Can you give a link please?

Matt Eastwood
Isn’t that one of the 11.10 standard wallpapers?

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
No idea, I use minimal then install LXDE with –no-depends. Hence me asking….

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Will check the wallpapers packages.
Matt Eastwood
I think those wallpapers are also all on flickr. Check out some older posts on omgubuntu, from when they were first revealed.

Andrew Miller
I’m not normally one to complain and do enjoy the occasional change, but I for one am real dissapointed with the direction that ubuntu is heading. 11.10 seems very glitchy and unpolished. It made my one laptop unusable and no matter what anyone says, I think that Unity is not the way to go. I prefer to stick to the mantra of if it ain’t broken, then why why the hell fix it. I know this will rouse up the hardcore unity fans, but so be it. I have been a hardcore ubuntu fan sine 6.10, using it almost exclusively. However, I hear a voice on one shoulder saying it may be time to start looking for a new distro…

https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Because of Unity? There are lots of shells in Ubuntu. A shell is an application. Switching to another distro because of it, is to go back to Windows because you like Chrome better than Firefox. It’s silly.
http://profiles.google.com/nathanlee2 nathan lee
“no matter what anyone says” – that might be your problem right there.
As for “if it ain’t broken, then why the hell fix it” – great. Go back to using nothing but command line. It’s extremely stable, flexible, and far faster than any GUI I’ve ever seen. Granted… it’s also less intuitive, pretty, or actively developed. But hey, it ain’t broke.

Václav Hlobil
With this approach and with Unity the Ubuntu #1 bug will be never be solved.

nrundy
I wouldn’t go that far. Unity is a better interface than Windows offers.
Two things keep ubuntu from overtaking Windows:
1.) ubuntu’s lack of high-level refinement (i.e., ubuntu is not free from obvious, glaring interface bugs), which both Windows and Mac OS exhibit. This isn’t an Ubuntu problem though, this is a Linux community problem. For example, take a look at this GNOME bug in Nautilus
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552093
(https://bugzilla .gnome .org/show_bug.cgi?id=552093), which has existed for over 3 years now. There’s just no excuse for such a glaring bug that is encountered every day by users (especially when at 400% zoom) to exist for so long. Windows and Mac OS do not have glaring bugs in the interface like this.
2.) lack of acceptance and industry support behind Linux as a viable Consumer-Desktop option. The industry caters to Windows and Mac OS by and large.
Ubuntu’s Unity is a great tool for defeating Windows marketshare, especially Oneiric’s Unity. Now if only ubuntu can get the many-bugs-issue fixed in the Linux community hopefully it will help ubuntu gain more industry support. Less bugs will certainly help gain more users.

Paul Seo
10 more min till install is over!!!!!! cant wait to review it
will also try gnome shell after this :P
Stijn Verwaaijen
So many negative comments here. One word of advise to all those people: try LMDE, you won’t regret it. It’s blazing fast, elegant and rock-steady.
Now I’m not here to bash Ubuntu. It was the distro that one me over for linux, but I can’t live with the direction it has taken since 11.04. Ubuntu and linux in general have always been know for their stability, but new and agressive changes have ruined that reputation (at least to me).

Václav Hlobil
You’re absolutely right. I use Ubuntu since 6.04, and enjoyed every new release. Until 11.04. I thought Linus Torvalds overdone his critic of Unity. But he was right…
https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Most of us who are happy, do not spend lots of time complaining about not being unhappy. To me, 11.10 is by far the best operating system I’ve ever used.

Stijn Verwaaijen
Who’s complaining? I was merely commenting…

Jochen Blacha
“One word of advise to all those people: try LMDE, you won’t regret it. It’s blazing fast, elegant and rock-steady.”
Been there, tried it, found it to be buggy as hell. The Installer from the Live CD image wouldn’t even let me partition a second hard drive and/or set a mount point for the drive.
I rather suggest Fuduntu, which is based on Fedora.
It’s also a rolling distro like LMDE but contrary to LMDE it’s actually fit for everyday usage. Though, it may take some adjustments to get used to rpm and yum.
The selling point of Fuduntu is “we will stay with Gnome (read: Gnome 2.3x) for as long as it’s possible”.
I installed it in its amd64 flavor on my main desktop some time ago (not a fan of the craptastic user interfaces of KDE4, Gnome3, Unity at all) and am very satisfied. Took me some time to slap it into shape – read: the way I want things configured – but the effort was worth the trouble.

Stijn Verwaaijen
I (and lots of people with me) didn’t encounter those troubles when installing LMDE but hey, things can and will go wrong sometimes.
I actually thought about giving Fuduntu a try, but the rpm/yum ‘issue’ seemed like a bridge too far for me. I love debian and apt-get and wouldn’t have it any other way.

Arslan Atajanov
Hey, common! Not a single positive feedback. :( In my case, Ubuntu 11.10 works like a charm on my Toshiba laptop. But it lacks GOOD word processor, with M$ Office functionality…(e.g. Picture manipulation, frames, very difficult to produce beautiful word document)

http://www.redtube.com ActionParsnip
Abiword works amazingly here :)
https://login.ubuntu.com/+id/R4szkb7 Jo-Erlend Schinstad
Then use MS Office? Canonical doesn’t support it, but it works quite nicely from what I’m told.
http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
A powerful word processor is more complex than it sounds, and the best contender (Openoffice) has been held back for years by politics. Hopefully that will improve now that Libreoffice has opened things up.

William Lead
Hello to everyone. If they stop the support for 10.10 (which is kinda soon) what exactly does it means …. I know their won’t be security updates any more, but is it really something to worry about ??

Nathan Moos
If you are not getting security updates, you are endangering all of us. Either use the latest or use an LTS, please.
http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
The main concern is web browsing: if your browser and plugins are missing security patches, malicious websites could get access to your computer. There’s plenty of people in that situation (IE 6 is still out there*), but it’s a good idea to upgrade to a supported release.
* IE 6 still technically gets security fixes until 2014. But I don’t think anyone with technical nouse would rely on it for security now.

Damion La Bagh
Got the Stripe down the middle of the screen bug, as documented in the Release notes. Not really a bug that makes me want to show others my desktop. :| Some Quality Control would be nice before releasing.
George Wright
tried upgrading one of my laptops. Failed. I’ll wait a few weeks and see if ubuntu ever goes on my primary laptop. A shame :(
House Of Pleasure
Upgraded but not happy. I can’t open folders anymore. When I try to open my home folder nothing happens, besides my screen is scewed ’cause i’m looking at a 4:3 ratio on 16:9 screen. It can’t be changed!
From what I’ve seen so far I’m less than impressed the above hick-ups aside… where is the Ubuntu icon on the top panel… The new scroll bar looks weird. lil’ things that make an unpolished impression on me more so than the previous verion. Maybe… things will be brighter when I can get the freaking screen ratio right. but right now my love for Ubuntu is at an all time low.

Anonymous
one word: drivers

Sergios Soursos
There’s a problem (bug?) with the network proxy: though it moved under “Network”, it misses some basic functionality (exception rules, use same proxy for all protocols, etc) BUT, most importantly, it does not work! I had to override the system proxy in Thunderbird and Firefox by using manual configuration in order to connect to the Internet. And I wonder how other programs will behave, since in my corporate network, I had many exception rules under the old-school ‘Network Proxy’.
After a quick google search I saw that there are a few others having the same problem. I wonder whether Canonical is informed about this…
Other than that, 11.10 rocks! And I ‘ll definitely upgrade my home system tonight, that requires no proxy btw ;)

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_C4FTH3G77M5WHAM6ELY43GV6EI Ashwin
ya I have the same problem too. unfortunately, in the university where I work, nothing works without proxy. So as of now, firefox is the only thing that conects to the internet because I can manually set the proxy. No installing applications, no updating for me …:-(

http://twitter.com/mlux82 marian lux
i only installed it on an old notebook. i dont get vmware player 3.x running. so i have to wait for a fix. or does any one has a solution? there is also a froum-entry: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/326978
i have the same error – described in the forum

http://twitter.com/mlux82 marian lux
after uninstalling vmware player 3 and installing version 4 its running :)

Makoy M
I still have 11.04 on top of my 11.10. i needed the libnotify1 for a certain app for work and 11.04 still has it, but nevertheless I’m enjoying gnome-shell on Oneiric. Yay lol
Sergios Soursos
There’s a problem (bug?) with the network proxy: though it moved under
“Network”, it misses some basic functionality (exception rules, use same
proxy for all protocols, etc) BUT, most importantly, it does not work! I
had to override the system proxy in Thunderbird and Firefox by using
manual configuration in order to connect to the Internet. And I wonder
how other programs will behave, since in my corporate network, I had
many exception rules under the old-school ‘Network Proxy’.
After a quick google search I saw that there are a few others having the
same problem. I wonder whether Canonical is informed about this…
Except from this issues, 11.10 rocks! And I ‘ll definitely upgrade my home system, that requires no proxy btw ;)
http://profiles.google.com/tarek.said.info Tarek Said
I’m going to wait a week or two before upgrating, until they fix all the bugs that usually happen on the first days of new releases.
I mean, you can beta test to death, but for an OS it’s impossible to test every single machine and predict every single situation!
Isaac Trumbo
Just tried out Ubuntu 11.10, and got to say… impressed.
Back when Natty first came out, Unity made me want to poke my eyes out, but it looks like they have made great improvements in the short 6 months since then. It’s actually usable now and I can see why Unity might be more attractive than Gnome 2 in the long run. (emphasis on ”might”)
I will still wait for the 12.04 LTS to come out though, still has some persistent and annoying bugs.
While I wait I am loving the company of LMDE :)
http://pn404.wordpress.com/ Tester
I’m trying Ubuntu 11.10 on a secondary computer, but it’s still too buggy. For now on my main computer I keep the 10.04 LTS, which is quite proven ad reliable and (almost) everything works.
Mohan
Not on my desktop, but been running 11.10 on my notebook since Alpah 3.
Luan Almeida
I upgraded both work and home machines. At work I’m with gnome shell rocking solid, but at home with my AMD graphics, gnome shell is working pretty bad, so I’m stuck in Unity for a while. Atleast it is better than gnome classic =D
I’ve noted some inconsistency with some packages such ubuntu-restricted-extras, but after some work it is all running ok.
Oh, yesterday I couldn’t install Google Chrome, so I’m running Chromium.
So far so good.
But I would like Ubuntu to become rolling release, or I might give a try to Arch….
Todd McCullough
So far not completely happy with the upgrade. I have 2 desktops and 1 laptop that use ubuntu. One of the desktop machines (the new system AMD Phenom II / 16 gigs RAM ) crashed during the upgrade, and now I am being forced to do a new install.
Aside from that, the other two machines were performing better with 11.04. Which worked really well. Overall, since switching to linux and ubuntu in 2009, I’ve been impressed with the development of the OS over the past couple of years.
Things appear to have stumbled quite a bit with this release. Hopefully they fix things soon. The graphical glitches with my NVIDIA card on the second desktop is pretty unacceptable, and I assume it will happen on the other system as well. Especially since I am a graphics person.
On the subject of desktops. I think that the GNOME shell is intuitive and quite innovative. So much so, that Unity appears to be simply a reskin/mod of it.
I look forward to a future where I say,” Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.” and the computer makes it so. Until then I like seeing the desktop evolve beyond the rut it has been stuck in for 15 years.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
Faenza icon set/theme 1.1 is out and its eye candy… **Drools**
Comes with perfect unity Integration and two themes Faenza-Radiance and Faenza-Ambiance. Unity is just DREAMY
http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez
I’m sticking with 10.04 LTS Netbook Edition (the best interface EVER) until 12.04 LTS :-)
And I won’t be using Unity, I’ll be using GNOME-SHELL.
Anonymous
I’ll soon upgrade, to another distro.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WYZELEFMAJIISSFGFTDR7NWFMA Hadd Itt
Two words:
Uncustomizable & Counterproductive
Antonio Tuzzi
I have installed 11.10 on my HP Compaq nc4400, but I haven’t yet time to perfrom tests on his behaviour, but first thing I experienced last night is that the proprietary diver for wireless device installed in my notebook “STA” doesn’t work, same problem I had wirh 11.04 and not present in 10.10, the solution is don’t install “STA” driver but install the other firmware by terminal with this command “# sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer”
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YPICAM36WORNHGBRFLV6JORLR4 Tristan Williams
I don’t get how people are having so much issues with installation. Are you guys creating root/user/swap ext4 partitions before you install or are you just letting the OS installer install on a large default partition?
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http://facebook.com/domcan2 1roxtar
How can anyone like Gnome Shell. It’s an “unholy mess”. I hear you, Linus. Using Gnome Shell, I feel like I’m playing tic-tac-toe.
Anonymous
Have been using it since alpha3 .Juat love it amazing release.I am hopin for going to fresh install.Downloading it :)
http://twitter.com/CalumSult CalumSult
I’m still on 9.10. :P I think I might actually upgrade this time, or maybe just wait for 12.04LTS.
Dragonbite
Ubuntu 11.10 is pretty good, a big improvement of Unity over 11.04.
Unfortunately the normal means of installing my broadcom wireless drivers have all failed, where they have worked before without issues.
http://twitter.com/nwlinux Mark I. Moore
Sticking with the LTS all the way. I host a Lucid mirror at my home. No need to upgrade when Lucid works so well.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PRX2RB52YGLWAPXZHIQSUNYYOI Eduardo
It looks like those who comment are mainly who complain about Unity/Gnome Shell. I was using GS under Fedora 15. Then I gave a try to Kubuntu 11.10 beta1, but I am used to the gnome-way (so to speak). I tried to install —under Kubuntu— the ubuntu-desktop, but it was a mess. So I did a fresh install of Oneiric beta2. I must say Unity has still a lot of minor, though annoying bugs. However, none of them is critical and I can live with them. I’ll be giving a chance for a while because I like the way the desktop looks like.
Anonymous
Won’t upgrade Ubuntu on my Netbook until the Battery Regression fix is implemented. Although, I’m looking forward to it on my desktop.

Anonymous
Man they need to fix this article … this is a kernel issue that is in 11.04 as well (I know since I had 14 hours of battery life in ubuntu 10.10 then 9 in 11.04, I think win 7 gets around 10 with Asus SHE)

Anonymous
I know it’s a Kernel issue (I desperately sought the workaround, but there as none). 11.04 on my netbook has half the battery life compared to Win7, but and my friend (who upgraded) says that 11.10 is even worse in that regard.
I like the features Ubuntu gives me, but battery drain is a big bane I can’t compromise on.

Anonymous
Ok, I was just testing if you were a troll :P
Here is what I did:
1) apply the phoronix grub fix:
add this: pcie_aspm=force acpi_osi=”Linux”
2) install jupiter (I had an eee pc so this was great … but it is good for all laptops) http://goo.gl/ZuLrq
3)do some other tweaks (hard to remember now, but I do have a notepad binder with this stuff so I might add some stuff)
Doing these even for my beast laptop saved me battery life, now I get the same battery life regardless of OS
here is a screenshot of said battery monster

Anonymous
Thanks! I’ll give it a try. Question: How do I add the first line?
Anonymous
http://goo.gl/3E8yp
That is a link to the guide … the “acpi_osi” part is extra and I only use it with my HP laptop (the aforementioned monster)

http://www.BaloneyGeek.com Boudhayan Gupta
Where’s the option for “I’m moving to Arch?”

Nick Pascucci
Seconded!
http://profiles.google.com/nathanlee2 nathan lee
It’s in the arch forums, why would you expect it to be in the ubuntu forums?

Anonymous
boom shakalaka boom! :P

Brian Oswald
There should be another choice for the poll: “That’s it! I have moved to Arch!”
My girlfriend booted from a Ubuntu Live CD and said “I don’t want this piece of crap on my computer!” and bought Windows 7.

Anonymous
I just mentally added “mmmhmmm *snap* *snap* *snap*” to the end of the qoute and now I can’t read it without it (adds drama and lifelike emotion).
In my case however, I started using ubuntu because my xp home desktop died and I was too cash-strapped at the time to buy Windows Vista, and had to learn how to get ubuntu 8.04 running on an nvidia chip (simple to me now … not then). I love and prefer ubuntu now, but I would be lying if I said that there wasn’t a learning curve to overcome.

Anonymous
I’ll be sticking to 11.04 Classic Gnome for a while and let you guys do the beta testing, both for Shell and Unity.
On the other hand, I’ll keep my Windows 7 and OS X PCs running. I might end up using primarily Windows again. Seven is THAT good.
Patricio Rossi
netbook updated, desktop will wait until LTS maybe
http://twitter.com/ErrorsOfMan K
Wait for LTS
http://twitter.com/orgulho_geek Orgulho Geek
I did the upgrade with RC2…
24 hours later, I did de downgrade by formatting my hard drive and installing 11.04 again.
I’ll install Oneiric only when the battery eater kernel get fixed to Sandy Bridge.

Anonymous
… but the kernel is there too
*play horror movie orchestra music*

Feisty Fawn
Just upgraded, So far so good! It runs flawlessly after reboot without any tweaks this time. It is actually a big surprise as usually my Ubuntu upgrade would end up in a big mess according to my previous upgrading experiences…. The new Unity has really improved a lot , but I still can’t say that I’m impressed , it’s maybe a cutting-edge design for the tablets , but since I don’t have one yet, so I can’t tell…, and I’ll most likely go get an ipad for myself if I really need one.
Upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 wasn’t a good experience, but I managed to get it working with a lot of googling and tweaks just as I did with most of my previous Ubuntu upgrades. so I’m quiet use to it, although it’s no big deal for me, but I can understand how most newbies feels.
A tip for those who encountered upgrade problems with Ubuntu, Last time I fixed my netty by enable the ‘proposed update’ in the software repository. So I just did the same thing this time. Hope this will help.

PS. I usually make a backup of my root partition (/) with Clonezilla before any Ubuntu upgrades, and if anything goes wrong, I can restore my previous working system in less than 5 minutes.
chRis …
Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop.
baljit singh
Remember you guys can always install Pantheon as opposed to other enviroments. Although I’m sticking with 11.04 until 12.04 LTS is released.
Matt Eastwood
Did a fresh install on my laptop yesterday night (desktop PC is still on 10.10).
Lots and lots of problems. I pereceive it as slower than 11.04. My battery icon is screwed up (it’s the same clunky ugly icon no matter what theme I use). Customization options have been removed since 11.04 (notably the Startup Applications are now all hidden so I cannot change or deactivate them anymore). Dash is harder to access than before (hides behind maximized windows, no longer comes up instantly when moving to top left screen corner). Also, I keep experiencing erratic behaviour that goes away after reboots.
And: I hear that there is no way to set Gnome Shell as the default option when logging in – you always have to select it manually. Is that true? (didn’t get to try it yet)
I have a hard time understanding why Ubuntu becomes less customizable with each new release. Why can’t I change my icon theme anymore without installing that tweak tool? Why can’t I control which apps run at boot without a hack? This used to work, guys! In 11.04!
Anyway, so I did a second fresh install later in the evening, after changing some Unity settings in CCSM completely broke Unity.
This morning, I used mountmanager to automatically mount the ext4 partition on my second hard drive at boot. Now, I cannot log into my admin account anymore. So when I get back home from work tonight, it’s time for the third fresh install.
I am not happy at all. My preliminary conclusion:
PROS: it looks good
CONS: it’s broken
Holding out for bug fixes. And the next Ubuntu Tweak so I can configure my workspace.

Ms. Polly
xubuntu 11.10 :)

Chris Moore
I decided to install 11.10 onto a spare partition to give Gnome3/Unity a second look. Overall the experience has not been as painful as it was last spring, but I am still not very happy with how the desktop is shaping up. Most of my complaints revolve around how the dash has been organised. There are to many steps involved in finding categories of applications, and once the category is selected it only shows a small selection of applications by default. This behavior will cause my clients issues and dramatically increase my support costs. I understand that there is the ability to search for the program you want to run, but conveying this message to office workers who are accustomed to finding applications categorically is a potential nightmare.
The dash issues aside, the dock is missing some of the window management functionality that Docky has provided in the past. I had hoped that with one of the main developers from Docky directly involved in Unity, some the advanced window management features would carry over. Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be the case. Switching between multiple open windows of an application is not as easy as it could be, entailing multiple mouse clicks or the use of the alt-tab / `-tab menu. Utilizing the scroll wheel to switch between windows seems a much easier method of doing this task. I am disappointed that these types of methods have not found their way into Unity.
I did install the Kubuntu Desktop and was pleasantly surprised at how KDE has matured. I was an ardent KDE user until the fiasco that was KDE 4.0 arrived in early ’08. With the lack of features in Gnome 3 I may look at returning to KDE until Gnome 3 has had a few years to mature, but I will need more time to familiarize myself with KDE’s eccentricities.
Overall this release of Ubuntu is relatively solid, only minor bugs rearing their heads. Unity and Gnome 3 still need time to mature and become feature complete. KDE may be a viable alternative until these other desktops get up to speed.
Cheers
Anonymous
I had no problems upgrading from 11.04 to 11.10 through the update manager. I like everything so far except I can’t get Banshee to work. I’m sure they’ll be sorting that out quickly.
Anonymous
Oneiric is such a relief after the horror that was Natty. It’s snappier and prettier, though I’d appreciate it if you didn’t need to install five different third-party applications to perform the tweaks you want. It broke scrolling on my touchpad, though :( I’m still looking for a fix.
Luis D
im still sticking with ubuntu 11.10 beta 2…. I wonder if I got already the final version through the update manager.

http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ Joey-Elijah Sneddon
As long as you’re up-to-date with updates you’re no longer on Beta 2 ;)

Luis D
Thank you Joey!, I’m up-to-date with the updates, so I guess I’m running the final version :)

Anonymous
I’ve got good-old Lucid on my Lenovo X200t. Took me some time to set it right, but now it’s rock-solid-stable and working great.
Natty was giving fair amount of working peripherals out-of-the-box (even on LiveUSB).
Oneiric on the other hand left my tabletPC with no touch nor tablet (stylus) working. I managed to enable touch with some workaround, but still no go with the stylus. Screen rotation doesn’t work either.
Another thing I’ve noticed is that Unity doesn’t fit to portrait mode (tested od VM, screen width 800px and less), gnome-shell does.
And upstart-udev-[something] is burning my CPU at 100%.
So for now I see some regressions regarding previous versions (specialy in specific hardware (tablet-PC)) and quite unfinished product, but hey – no one said Gnome3 is finished product anyway;). And hell I hope it will mature some day, cause I’m starting to love it. Maybe in next LTS it will..
On PC is a different story, most things work. But I’ll keep Lucid LTS for production enviroment.
Donald Lush
To answer the question, haven’t upgraded and won’t be. Tried it on the live CD and find it too gimmicky, fussy and complicated. Will be switching to Mint.
Juraj Benicek
Don’t like that empathy does not show blue icon when message came…it’s quite a fail for me..but also no big deal :)
https://launchpad.net/~davidnielsen David Nielsen
Deeply.. deeply disappointed. Got the AMD64+Mac image, booted it via rEFIt on my MacMini5.2 (2011 with Radeon) only to be greeted by a completely white screen which stuck around forever.
Cannot even boot on this setup, I tried forcing it into vesa mode which at least on Fedora 16 Beta brought up fallback GNOME3, but still no luck.
Either distro currently even installs correctly on the Apple style EFI.
One could blame me for getting a Mac but honestly, it is bogstandard Intel and AMD hardware underneath. Both companies that work with us, provides specifications, code and significant developer time. Yet neither hybrid graphics such as is found in the MacMini5.2 nor EFI are even remotely tackled.
Worst bit next release is LTS and EFI setups are only going to become increasingly more common, so are I suspect hybrid graphics. Ubuntu seems to have seriously underestimated the challenge these setups are going to be.
http://twitter.com/ux92 uvazquez
Well, after reading all these problems, I must say I’m gonna stick with my Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition for a while.
When 12.04 gets out… we’ll see. Probably update. But if problems persist, gonna have to switch to another Debian-based distro. Maybe Mint, never used it. Or Jolicloud. Or EasyPeasy. I don’t know.
The only thing I liked about this release was the new Software Center, but seems it sucks and has a lot of bugs. Pity, I wanted to give it a shot other than from an USB stick, but well.

https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo
Why don’t you try running it from a live USB before drawing conclusions based on other people’s bad upgrades? I did a fresh install, and it’s perfect! The battery problems are related to the linux kernel, so you will get them at whatever distro you try.

nrundy
I’m sticking with 10.04, but only because it has less bugs and performs better than 11.10.
I prefer 11.10 user-interface and design (i.e., Unity & GNOME 3.2) but it has too many bugs and performance isn’t as good as 10.04 (e.g., 10.04 boots faster, runs cooler, gets better battery life, is generally faster overall in accomplishing tasks). I wanted to switch to 11.10, but I can’t justify it performance wise.
Dietmar Wolf
I upgraded on my rather old inspiron 6000. No problems, very fine, I like it very much. Especially global menu.
slumbergod
Installed Xubuntu 11.10 last night. I have had so many issues I am considering going back to 11.04 or trying another distro. Problem after problem.
Anonymous
How about: That’s it! I’m running Arch! :D ?
Anonymous
Upgraded to 11.10 and it’s great! Unity has definitely improved, systems setting seems to have had some work, glorious new wallpapers, great new login screen. Going to try out Thunderbird next and maybe Gnome 3.
My only dislike is the move of the dash home/Ubuntu button onto the dock. This definitely should have stayed put on the title bar, the change slows work flow for me at times and doesn’t seem logical. Anyone know of a ‘hack’ to get it back to its previous home?
Bailey Kelly
Anyone run across these issues?
1. My old wallpaper is gone and so is the link that used to be there to get it.
2. No setting for a screen saver?
3. No neat little sounds anymore other than when booting.

https://launchpad.net/~danillo Danillo
To set a screensaver: http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/10/enable-screensavers-in-ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot/

Chulabhaya Wijesundara
Anyone else finding that 11.10 is actually slower than 11.04? I thought things were supposed to get faster, but they actually got quite a bit slower for me… Nothing to do with my comp, 11.04 ran like a breeze, but 11.10 lags on basically everything.
Is that Fedora I see?
http://twitter.com/historyb Doug Wilson
I install 11.10 yesterday, 11.04 did not want install correctly. This is the first time I really like unity
http://profiles.google.com/danteashton Danté Ashton
Well, from my limited understanding, GDM could only be themed so far; it isn’t as flexible as KDM or LDM. I have to say, I rather like the result.
It appears to me that Ubuntu wanted something more…pretty. I don’t see anything wrong with that; they already said they were trying to beat the fruit company a while back…
http://profiles.google.com/danteashton Danté Ashton
Last I heard, Fedora makes it more difficult then need be to find/install non-FOSS stuff.
Also, Ubuntu’s repo, when frozen for release, does contain up to date stable releases, SUSE/Fedora did (at least, when I was there, a few years ago) not update them.
Anonymous
Don’t like Unity for one bit will be UPGRADING to Ubuntu 10.10
Just give back user control and make using the launcher and dash a choice instead of forcing people to use something that may not work for them. Same for the window menus.
Unity stinks, its a good way to promote window 7 though.

Anonymous
Ignoring your troll comments, I can offer you this solution: Upgrade to 11.10 (it has an upgraded kernel and better support), and then install Classic Gnome. DE =/= OS.

Anonymous
Newer =/= Better
If you mean the classic gnome fall back option. That is not classic gnome but new software emulating the classic interface on Unity. At this moment it is incomplete and has quite a view limitations. I sure hope you’re not recommending this.
A true gnome 2 option, would be great!
From a ergonomic point of view Ubuntu 11.x seems to be aiming at small screen devices. The simple fact that at the same time (easy) user configurability is limmited, makes the current generation of Ubuntu less suitable for desktop users.
That is not to say there are no improvements in v11.10 over v10.10. However there are also drawbacks. For me the drawbacks (no more Eagle PCB, no more Synfig, the launcher and dash, the application menus, incomplete Compiz support and I could go on a while) makes me prefer other OS, pardon, distro options over Ubuntu 11.x.

Alessandro Muroni
Of course I did..
BUT due to lot of bugs and really poorly made ati drivers (damn you ati, damn you!) unity is glitchy/buggy and gnome-shell is completely unusable.
So, after something like 6 attempts of installing a usable & bugfree version of oneiric, now I’m back to my natty 11.04 which now stable enough, until ati fixes the driver for mi ati hd 4650.
Anonymous
Somebody please tell me that this isn’t the release! “Oh dear god” please! Dear Canonical; If you need more time to work on a release, please take it!
Jeff Dorenbush
I upgraded to 11.10, and after about an hour of using it I downgraded back to 11.04. I can’t quite get used to Gnome 3 or Unity. I don’t understand why they limit the dock position to the left or right of the screen, without allowing the option to place it in the bottom of the screen…It’s really frustrating.
Anonymous
If Arch Linux didn’t exist, I’d probably have this update since the Beta (as I did on my test machine). And if I didn’t have GNOME 3, I’d probably be using ElementaryOS full time rather than use Unity (not that it’s bad or anything- it’s just not exceptional).
Anonymous
I like it very much. However 2 issues so far:
Cannot install Google Chrome’s deb package with the Software Centre.
After logging into a Guest account, could not shut down, it just presented the login screen again.
Also Gnome 3 really needs more improvement.
Ubuntu progressing nicely but just some quality controls need to attended to.
Good work to all.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
I guess the thing about guest accounts not being able to shut down is down to Linux’s server heritage: only an admin should be able to shut the machine down. Of course, that’s kind of irrelevant when any user can hold the power button down to turn it off.

Anonymous
Tried to upgrade, but Oneiric won’t even install on a machine where Maverick is running flawlessly. Screen brightness is set to minimun at startup, making installation impossible. I had the same problem with Natty, and looks like it won’t be solved any time soon. Lots of people have been reporting the same regression for almost a year. I’m downloading Debian at the moment.
Isaac Joseph
I upgraded. I don’t particularly dislike Unity as I think it’s an interesting experiment. However, there is something that doesn’t make sense:
If I have a maximized window with an unmaximized window in front, I have to minimize the first before I can get to one behind it. If they move the window controls back into the windows (where they belong), this wouldn’t be an issue.
My first distro (and experience with Linux) started with Ubuntu 7.04. I have since moved on to OpenSUSE and Fedora, but still have a fondness for Ubuntu. (I also do Android ROM development, so it’s easiest to get my environment set up on Ubuntu.) Like I said, I don’t dislike Unity and I think it’s impressive that Canonical is trying to bring a cohesive and complete Linux experience for end-users. I just wish that instead of making changes just for the sake of being different, they adhere to certain logical standards. Change the UI/shell as much as you want, but at least do things that make sense.
If anyone as a solution/workaround to my problem above, I’d appreciate any suggestions. :)

Anonymous
Um, no. You can just click the window behind the active one, and focus will shift to it.

http://thecitycyclist.blogspot.com Ryan
I tried 11.04 and couldn’t remove it fast enough. Far too buggy and wasn’t overly thrilled with Unity.
Installed 11.10 this morning and I find it is much more stable then 11.04, though I don’t find it all that fast. Sort of slugish at times, and twice the Unity bar just disappeared. I actually couldn’t wait to get back into my Win7.
I’m fairly new to Linux, but on Mint (or gnome 2) I feel more in control of customizing things. I can’t for the life of me to get compiz to work and I can’t get Kdenlive to render an MP4 video with sound.
(anyone know of a similar program that’s better then Kdenlive?)
Also, I’m still not crazy about Unity still. If I’m unsure of the name of a program, it takes forever to locate it.
A more “classic” menu option would be quite nice for 12.04. I have no interest in a touch PC or tablet so I don’t want my desktop to have the ‘touch feel’.
I tried Gnome Shell and it runs faster, but feels less stable and I can’t get the “activities” panel to my main monitor.
I removed Ubuntu 11.10 in favour of Kubuntu 11.10 which is much faster, but there are certain things I simply can’t find and I actually find KDE confusing…but that’s probably because I’m use to gnome.
I’ll give Ubuntu another shot soon to see if I can adjust to Unity. If not I’ll just go back to Win7 only or go with Mint…Though I suppose it’s only time until they go with gnome 3 :
Francesco Agosti
Unfortunately I upgraded (from 11.04) :(
So far it seems the worse Ubuntu update I ever had :
- All my interface fonts went to standard size (which is way too small for me, I have vision issues, and I cannot find anymore where to set them)
- Proprietary NVIDIA graphic drivers won’t install
- Compiz not working
- Where’s my mail now? I expected my accounts and stored mail being migrated… probably was expecting too much
- Panel applets disappeared
… wanna cry :(
http://mark-y-a.myopenid.com/ Marky
Holy mother of batman! Oneiric is great and faster. I should know, I’ve been using Natty since it’s release. Not that Natty was slow, but this one is obviously a faster kitty! I just did a fresh install on my desktop. OMG! O__o Nautilus even comes out faster on first use from login, like it was already pre-loaded. WTF?! This Gnome 3.2 is looking good. :)
By the way no crashes or whatever. I’ve been using it for hours now. I don’t know what the other guys here are saying about slow and keeps on crashing. I’m beginning to think your machines must be “alien” or something if you wh1n3rs here can’t seem to get a good install. ROFLMAO!
Oh yeah this is AMD64 I’m using! wtf. This is even an older machine. I wonder how fast Oneiric will go on current Intel CPUs? Zoooooooooooom! I’ll find out soon enough. Next install, laptop!
=P
Teri Seika
Ugrade is Sh***, reinstall is better.
Yes I upgraded from 11.04, and it was the worst upgrade ever for me.I had to spend time with a live cd 10.04 I had to backup my data.some data were not accessible for undefined reason.The only thing I learned was to use “gksudo nautilus” to backup data without privilege.I finally dowloaded the iso, put it on usb and reinstalled properly.I will never upgrade ubuntu anymore.
Joseph Markham
Ugraded this morning.
Flash-plugin installer exited with errros… when rebooting, Unity looked flaky and finally stopped working….
Rebooted into unity 2D, updated whatever i could, reenabled unity from CCSM and it seems to be working now….
fingers crossed though….
http://twitter.com/TonksFX Craig Tonks
Installed, working much faster and smoother than 11.04. Love it!
Marcin Antczak
It’s sooo dissapointing. This release should have something like “Ubuntu for Dummies” as codename. “Software center” is a piece od crap – try to find anything there on this unsorted list… :[ Control center? Try to change default font!!!! It’s one big step in wrong wrong wrong direction.
Syawal Moin
still stick with 10.04. will wait until unity mature enough on precise pangolin.
Anonymous
Just upgraded, and there’s not much difference first time restarting – apart from the look, of course.
Oh – Firefox has lost Flash. Bad, bad boys.
Hope they fix it this week, otherwise it’s either revert to a working 11.04, or start using my Win-7 partition as my default OS.
http://twitter.com/branimirkolar Branimir Kolar
I initially liked 11.10 but after a few days I don’t. And I liked 11.04! Small things but VERY annoying to me:
- I can’t see whats my chat status straight away (available,away…)
- No copy dialog indicator anymore.
- No way to change fonts from settings without installing gnome-tweak (which is for shell and not unity)
- Can’t create launchers on desktop
I don’t get it, this is becoming an OS for kids or something.

Anonymous
“No copy dialog indicator anymore.”
There is a Unity progress bar on the Nautilus entry on the Launcher, which is just SO much better than a copy dialogue (mind you, the dialogue is still there, there just isn’t a panel icon for it; I’m sure there’s a way to bring it back). Of course, it helps when your Launcher is on Never Hide.

Anonymous
Ubuntu 11.10 is a bit of a disgrace. It has ten times as many bugs/annoyances as in natty, and there is no easy way to do anything. You can’t easily change/customize themes (real theme customization, although what you can do in gnome tweak tool works, but the feature still needs to be native), can’t customize the panel, and can’t do half the stuff that natty could.
Also, removing window controls on maximized windows (without the mouse hovering over the panel) is a terrible idea. Beginners will give up on Ubuntu if they cant find how to close a damn firefox window because the controls are hidden
With the video card I have now, it didn’t work on natty because it was blacklisted. I looked around and found a fix and read that the bug, which is a big annoying bug, should be fixed in 11.10
I upgrade to it and find out that it hasn’t been fixed and that in fact it works WORSE than natty. Like 100x worse. Now everything has ridiculous shadows that instead of shadow it shows jarbeled up junk in place of it. Half the time I have to run unity –replace in the terminal right after I log in because the windows go above the dash and panel. Gnome shell has similar problems, and unity 2d still doesn’t cut it for me.
But, there is some good. It gives users more choice on weather to use unity or Gnome shell. It has gtk 3, which is nice. The new dash is outstanding, and things like ubuntu one/ ubuntu one music will probably help canonical break even. USC is almost perfect. The power cog has to be one of the best small improvements canonical has done since adding banshee/rhythmbox controls in the sound menu.
But it still isn’t good. I’ll be searching the forums/askubuntu for any help, but for a release that was supposed to fix many many bugs, it just didn’t make the cut for me.
Canonical had better start working on fixing EVERY SINGLE BUG and have a FINISHED PRODUCT for 12.04, not this beta-quality release known as oneiric ocelot.
http://twitter.com/di0nysys Andrew Smith
too busy these days, waiting till christmas holidays
billiam268
I’d love to, but the stupid ubuntu 11.04 has gone wrong at some point which stopped me from updating, and now when I start getting the packages on the upgrade, half way through it stops, and just takes away the option to even upgrade, so yeah… im stuck in 11.04 until they actually make it possible to get 11.10

Anonymous
Fresh installation. Upgrading Maverick>Natty and Natty>Oneiric has been very iffy for most.

Anonymous
Second this.
Backup your personal stuff , then do a fresh install and put your stuff back. This works much faster than the upgrade option and gives less headaches.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7A5NF65DOEW22RZRFZOHVAJ2AI Wayne
That’s easier said than done when you have 145 GB of “personal stuff” and only a 3.5″ diskette drive as a backup device…

http://twitter.com/branimirkolar Branimir Kolar
Another 11.10 stupidity: You can’t turn off that awful login sound.

Anonymous
You can: http://maketecheasier.com/disable-login-sound-in-ubuntu-oneiric-quick-tips/2011/09/15
However, I still don’t know a way to mute all sounds, such as the “pop!” you get when adjusting the sound or the “ding!” when a download is complete (though both those are very nice).

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
If you do need it to shut up (as I do with my work laptop), a simple workaround is just to leave it muted until you want sound.

http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4LQS5PYG2IN5M7QABSRJQEK6U4 Jennifer
I really like Oneiric. I think everything is great about it except for battery life. I bought a new Sandy Bridge laptop just for Oneiric. And now I learn that Sandy Bridge has a horrible power bug on Oneiric :(
I don’t want to, but I’m considering using Windows until this bug is fixed. I like using the Oneiric much better than Windows, but everytime I use it without power cable I end up running out of battery pretty quick.
Mohan
OMG, Unity in 11.10 is like a thousand times better than the version found in 11.04! Loving it!
Brian McCullough
THAT’S IT! I’m going back to Fortran punch-card batches!!! ;)
http://twitter.com/lorinthe lorinthe
Installed on our printer / test server. Now Printer HP2550L no longer works. It’s connected by a USB>Parallel cable.
Arno Gideonse
I tried upgrading and installing the Gnome shell (I am one of those Unity haters ;-)), but with the ATI drivers this shell is just not working. As I like my stuff working ‘out-of-the-box’ I installed Fedora: maybe in the future I will switch back to Ubuntu if they drop Unity and have good Gnome 3 support =).
Radoslav Karaivanov
I’ve already upgraded…. to Fedora 16
Ilya Novoselov
As an Ubuntu entusiast, I’ve upgraded before official release. And it was great! I still like the Unity improvements and new login manager.
I can understand all the whining, but personally I like the new things Ubuntu introduces.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IGMP7W727KUEQCUI4WE7A3INHE Riccardo Magrini
I won’t install Ubuntu 11.10 for replacing Ubuntu 11.04 + Gnome 2 on my PCs!
It’s impossible to use unity and the dash on the job.
And then why I can not modify the position of the applications as like me on Dash Home ??
Dash Home and Unity are closed, why do I’ve to use them?

Anonymous
They’re hardcoded at the moment because, I believe, the Unity developers fear a lot of bugs emerging from making it customisable, at a time when the major jump to Unity and GNOME3 created enough bugs. I see it being opened up in 12.10 but not before.

Tom Murphy
At the moment I have 11.10 x64 on my Desktop – all is fine all drivers work out the box (not bad for a custom AMD Rig) – I have Gnome 3 Shell running and have been using that for the main DE – I want to reduce the size of the unity dock – which I cant – I also want the interface to stop auto hiding the file menu on running programs – Why did they do this? Again I cant sort that.
Gnome Shell will be the main for the time being, my Dell D620 Laptop will get 11.10 as well but again with GS, my old D610 is great with Kubuntu 11.04 (really suits the system for some reason 4.3 screen?) and the D505 is getting WattOS4. I was using 11.04 in the D620 for the last 5 months and liked the Unity interface as I could customise it a little – now its just big and obtrusive – i would like to thank all the people that work to bring us a generally top notch OS , but I really think they should back off on babying the interface.
Tom
Anonymous
Alienware M11x R2 –> ubuntu 11.10 64bits.
Issues i found during installation: wifi notifications background had a black rectangle around it. wifi dropped every 10 minutes. i got laggy windows. Almost finishing the installation my terminal got stuck on some point and it stopped showing info as well as the progress bar. I had to wait for 20 minutes and suddenly i just got a massage saying that the installation was finished and i should restart. when the system restarted i could not fix the wifi problems with restricted drivers (i didn’t have this problem on the buggy 11.04) i took 10 minutes to align my extra monitor in the settings window. could not have unity dash were i wanted. found i problem with glx-dock that i cant unhide the dock because i cant point the mouse to the bottom of the screen (2 monitors issue). my video card seems to work with bumblebee/ironhide project but unfortunately compiz cube rotate animation is making my windows to blink for a second every time i rotate the cube. to top if off sometimes the indicators just dont work. i click, the menu appears and than pops out immediately. i dont know what to do anymore.. i wish i could tell my friends to try ubuntu but im ashamed of it today. i thought that 11.04 problems would stay in past but its not what i see… now im going to try the 32bits version. if it doesn’t work, ill move to another distro. i refuse to go back to 11.04.
ringo de kroon
if desktop wall will change intoo Desktab wall, i mean tabbing in the thesktop background unity menu can disapear :)
http://www.linuxscriber.com Panos Georgiadis
The new Fedora 16 kicks asses. Super fast imo and nice hacks for Gnome 3. The new Ubuntu is not what I was expected… Nautilus crashes a lot http://osarena.net/2011/10/how-to-prevent-nautilus-from-crashing-in-ubuntu-11-10.html
Rowan Pronk
Have it running on my Laptop / Desktop…Its very responsive on both, the Ubuntu Software Center ‘Sync’ feature is interesting, not very useful at this stage, but maybe they could build on this. I do like all the small more polished touches don’t have any major issues. Quite happy with this!
http://twitter.com/pauk960 Milan Pavkovic
Tried it and realized how unstable and full of bugs is, and went back to LMDE which has been my main distro since 11.04. I still hope that 12.04 will be more stable since it’s LTS, then I might switch back to Ubuntu.
Anonymous
Except for lightDM, I do not see any reason to upgrade. Especially
GNOME3 looks like a mess, and I personally don’t like (the windows-like)
Unity.
So, sticking with 11.04 for now.

Anonymous
I would advise you to. 11.04 was quite unstable. 11.10 is less customisable, and yes, a little awkward, but it’s lightyears ahead of 11.04.

http://twitter.com/mattatron mattatron
Upgrading Ubuntu is a myth. It always ends up in breakage.
I’ve opted for a clean install after giving the upgrade from 11.04 a desperate try.

http://twitter.com/takluyver Thomas Kluyver
Really? I’ve upgraded home and work machines to 11.10 OK, and quite a few previous updates. Generally I’ve done a clean install every few versions (most recently natty on one machine, and lucid on the other, I think)

Anonymous
i did upgrade via update manager.
it went well. no problems at all. i just had to upgrade empathy afterwards, it was hanging cause of dependency thing.
satisfied overall
Daniel Ferradal
I have upgraded 2 boxes at home to 11.10, work labtop will have to wait as I depend on third party packages to perfectly work with it and they need to be adapted first.
Although allow me to say I am a very demanding user of the linux desktop in a very practical way and I found in unity a nice improvement over the all-time old menu system, I was fedup of navigated through hierarchy of folders and now my most used documents or apps are just 3 or 4 key-typing away and I get to work even faster than ever before (after some getting used to of course).
I have loved what I’ve seen of 11.10 and looking forward to upgrade it into my most used machine, my work laptop.
http://yellowmed.com G. Böhme
With 11.10 i got more problems than with 11.04. I have an Dell XPS l701x and
- hybrid graphics doesn’t work, so i can’t use a second monitor … and that really sucks
- SD-Card-Slot doesn’t work
- AND THE BEST: WLAN card doens’t work anymore (centrino wireless-n 1000)! after two days of reading an testing nothing worked for me …
arrrrrrgh … why they release such a buggy system?
Anonymous
11.10 on my machine with xfce as my window manager. Unity is nice, but until I can easily add things to the menu, group icons according to my own logic, and wine can automatically add entries for the games I like it isn’t a viable option. It’s what Linux is supposed to be about.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TPTNOTDL22CYABBUOHFBSUNODM Alex C
Installed 11.10 on Saturday and went back to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Sunday. I absolutely HATE Unity and will most likely switch to XFCE when 12.04 is released.
Anonymous
I am VERY disappointed with 11.10 x64, To me it simply is NOT ready yet to succeed 11.04 which I had entirely under control
DVB-t me-tv, Kaffeine broken. Evolution backup / restore corrupted, archive wrecked. Other Emails pks defective. That pesky LH toolbar an utter nuisance and an irritating distraction and so far I cannot switch it off. I just hope Mint can keep it going when they go to ver12.
What a mess!!!
RAC-UK
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HFWQP624DPNDTKYB35GZG73OUQ Tim
I tried to upgrade, but that failed. Then I tried a clean install, but with dual screen setup and AMD graphics, that was a horrible experience. Once I finally got it working properly with Unity, I had issues with plenty of other things, such as no Sun Java support for 11.10 which I need to have. I found some instructions for installing it, but then the software I use that depends on Sun Java wouldn’t run on 11.10. I couldn’t use Cisco Any Connect VPN with 11.10 either. It was horrible trying to just get things done with 11.10. I had high hopes for it, but in the end, I’m glad I cloned my 11.04 install. I’ll give it a month and try 11.10 again. I really wish that the experience had gone smooth, but I’ll be patient.
And lastly, the new Nautilus is the dumbest design I’ve ever seen! Put the left/right arrows back above the left pane please! Who was responsible for putting these frequently used buttons in the new location???? Are you serious? Did Apple have a hand in designing this? I haven’t been this frustrated with a new release from Ubuntu as I was with Lion.
http://twitter.com/AndyGait Andy Gait
Tried Unity, but it’s so slow. However, Gnome shell runs smooth as silk on my desktop, so I’ll give that a go for a bit and see how things go.
I’m a big fan of Ubuntu, but I’ve never been a fan of Unity (going back to the days of the Netbook remix) but I’ve tried and tried and I just don’t like it. If I can’t get on with Gnome Shell I’m quite happy to go back to the LTS (despite the issue I have with my scanner not working on it).
Anonymous
I updated as soon as it was available. Upgrading was smooth if lengthy. Afterwards, I ran into a few issues that were resolved by removing several PPAs and updating. Apparently, Software Center is asserting its dominance for software installation. :)
Brian Rahardi
The only problem in every upgrade is that I use so many ppa that used to be disabled during upgrade. I didn’t upgrade this time, I choose fresh install on different partition, to see whether it will be stable and have features I need. My installation shares /home partition so I have little worries about my data and my old configuration for 10.04. But so far after installing 11.10 I haven’t boot back to my 10.04.
Christian Schuster
UPgraded but i cant become cool with unity. I want my old gnome desktop back. Tryed to reinstall it but cant get so cool like the one Ubuntu 11.04
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SNZFDS7BFYSGKK7CJ7SHADS3HQ time_now
I did upgrade to 11.10, I regreted very much, I only have problems I’m considering re-install back to 11.04 or 10.11. I do not know why they do this! I lost the confident I had in the Ubuntu team. They must think this is a game, the people play and not work with the computer. What is the hurry of new versions? Why you do not make sure everything works and do not change everything so radically. Seem to me there are working for Microsoft and not for the people!
Anonymous
From past experience with Ubuntu upgrades, I usually backup my existing version to another drive and then do a fresh install since some of my packages are either removed or won’t run. And even though this process is tedious, I find that this type of install goes much better. Since installing 11.10 and making several tweaks here and there, it appears to be more stable than the previous version.
http://www.facebook.com/jbumaat Julius Ybañez Buma-at
I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 to 11.04 and to 11.10 unfortunately I don’t like its features so I switched to the KDE version of Ubuntu. So far my 4-year-old PC (Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.6GHz, 1GB RAM, 250GB HDD, Intel GMA950) is running a bit smoother on Ubuntu’s KDE variation than on Ubuntu’s Unity DE.
Tahir Baringtin
why ubuntu cant fix this, when i use fglrx ,it become slow…slower then a turtle…my ati radeon driver work fine in win 7…please fix this…ubuntu 10.04 better then 11.10
Donald Lush
After trying 11.04 and 11.10 a lot, then Mint 12 – all slower and less easy for me to use. Back at 10.04 LTS. Fast and productive, love it.

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