I decided to try out 10.10. I used 10.04 this summer at my internship (worked flawlessly), but had never used it on this machine before. The install took nearly

I decided to try out 10.10. I used 10.04 this summer at my internship (worked flawlessly), but had never used it on this machine before. The install took nearly an hour, the first time I tried to boot and several times thereafter things would hang before the boot splash, and when it did start X was performing so poorly that it was nearly unusable (terminal could not keep up with my typing, 2-3 second delay between clicking a menu and setting it, etc.). Apparently this is caused by a kernel bug with i7 processors and/or the X58 chip-set that will be resolved in coming versions, but I have no idea how they didn't catch this in beta. I'm currently back to using Arch. I was hoping that 10.10 might offer a more "ready out of the box" experience, but I didn't find it.