On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 4:36 PM, Word Wizard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Now that Natty seems to have settled down, apparently it does deliver > performance superior to its predecessors. Whether due to the new > compiz-based graphics instead of mutter or some other change I can't say > but display speed is noticeably improved with Unity. Ubuntu forums seem > to indicate problems with Natty "Classic" (the old Gnome-ish interface) > but at least Unity delivers on its promise of speed. > > I hadn't noticed much of a speed increase, but I haven't found anything that worked slow enough to stand out, either. I've been pretty happy with it. > > Also, possibly related, I've found that Natty's LibreOffice loads its > initial invocation much faster than OpenOffice. So much so that I've > abandoned GEdit Geany and Kate and use Libre Office Writer for all my > work, text as well as word processing and HTML; it's really just as fast > and clean as GEdit. That alone justifies the switch to 11.4 for me. The > new Unity side panel still takes some getting used to but at least it > works as advertised now, my old favorite Avant panel coexists perfectly > with it and the improved Natty graphics makes the Unity app menu as fast > as the old Gnome-panel, even with the extra mouse click. > > I wanted to wait until I had spent enough time with it to get a better impression, but overall I'm very happy with it. I *LIKE* that it got rid of some of the bars on top and bottom that were valuable space to me. The pop-up menu bar and having the launcher on the side are both great improvements, in my book. I have a widescreen monitor, and vertical space is much more crowded. Having the launcher on the side uses a part of the screen that normally gets much less use on my computer than most of it. I'm loving the difference. I think that Ubuntu is going in a good direction - I can still get to low level stuff if I need to, but so far everything has worked so well out of the box that I haven't had to do much command line. It's still been easy to get to for the couple of things I've needed. Short story - I'm sold on it. Erik _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
