<rant> I speak as an ubuntu fan, with a house full of ubuntu's, and long experience. natty not just slightly painful. It is seriously unusably bad regressions awful... on 10.10, I was used to not having suspend/resume, to having to stop looking at video to keep the graphics chip from overheating (triggering a shutdown) but 11.04 is far, far worse. the trackpad (this might be hardware) doesn't work, there isn't anywhere to set it. The wireless no longer works (not a driver issue, I start up wpa_supplicant & dhclient by hand and it's fine about half the time, the rest of the time, it refuses to associate. I rmmod ath9k, then modprobe it again, and then I can get bandwidth back. I just leave it alone for a few hours, it is always crashed/hung... I suspect it's the open source X drivers not dealing well with GL screen savers, because it doesn't crash much when I stay in front of it. I will refrain from talking about Unity beyond saying it is clearly not ready in a thousand ways, I switched to xfce to get away, which was less foreign, but all the hardware issues remain. (tests done mostly with alpha3) losing all the knobs to adjust things, it is just a really big step backwards. I worry that in trying to make Unity, which should be a big step forwards, people are forgetting just how many little details went into making ubuntu/gnome actually work. I was a kubuntu user for years but had recently switched to the gnome stream because of all the little things that didn't work. The unity people have years of work to do before we get to usability parity with the classic desktop. It's just so unspeakably bad that I don't even have the courage to submit a bug report, it isn't even close to being usable, it just feels like a complete waste of time. Seriously, Canonical cannot be serious about this. It isn't going to work. </rant>
I feel better now...
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