Yes, both my installs were on computers with SSD drives and i7 cpus.
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Gnome theme not applied on session start
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/574296
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I think I'm experiencing this bug too. In the past few weeks, I've
installed Ubuntu 10.10 x64 desktop on brand new self-built machines.
One of the first things I did to each was to activate the Nvidia driver,
once I rebooted, themes no longer seem to be applied, the UI looked like
9.04.
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