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Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

441 points by SandB0x 16y ago

mise 16y ago
Dare you?
- dawson 16y ago
  about 7 minutes remaining :)
- mise 16y ago
  I did dare. I'm in, but it took getting very scared looking at a black command prompt with no gui. Doing "sudo apt-get remove flgrx" (to reset the graphics settings) did the trick. After a couple of restarts I was in.
Garbage 16y ago
A short list of whats new in Ubuntu 11.04 - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new And features - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features
- mhw 16y ago
  Also worth a quick look through the release notes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes
- nateberkopec 16y ago
  Man, Ubuntu's changed a lot since I used it last (8.0 days). They've taken a lot of UI cues from the mobile space (app stores, launchers) and adapted it to the desktop.
unwind 16y ago
Of course, this is the release that changes the desktop interface around quite a lot. I'm a bit hesitant, although this answer in the FAQ was soothing: No problem at all. You can choose to launch the classic desktop experience when you log in to your computer. Not sure if this really means that the choice has to be re-made on every login, or if is remembered. Anyone?
- johkra 16y ago
  It's remembered. (I have been running it since beta 2 on my work computer.)
  - unwind 16y ago
    Great to hear, thanks. Now I'll be more likely to do the update.
- jsvaughan 16y ago
  It remembers. My laptop can't run Unity so I've been running the beta in classic mode, only needed to select it once.
  - Canopy 16y ago
    Do you mean that Unity requires more resources ?
- drivingmenuts 16y ago
  You don't get a choice if you run it in a VM, btw. It's classic or aught.
  - wbond 16y ago
    What virtualization program are you running? If you are using VirtualBox you can run apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils. You'll also need to enable 3D support under Settings > Display.
    - dave1010uk 16y ago
      Just did this: it works.
    - sunsu 16y ago
      Though Unity works as expected (awesome!), there still seems to be some other bugs with VirtualBox integration. A big one for me is that seamless mode doesn't work when running 11.04.
lwhi 16y ago
As I use my Ubuntu desktop to actually get work done, I'm quite terrified about installing this release. I'm not sure I'll upgrade for a while yet, I want to find out what the general consensus is first.
- crocowhile 16y ago
  That's why I moved to ARCH a few years ago. Only once did an an arch upgrade caused problems; with ubuntu it was a pain almost everytime.
  - doublerebel 16y ago
    Arch tends to keep configuration formats and file locations between major versions. I've found that with Ubuntu, simple things like mouse button config change drastically between versions. I love Arch on the server but Ubuntu is just too easy and has so much software available for the desktop. For the last few Ubuntu versions I start with Ubuntu Minimal (30MB instead of 690MB) to avoid all the extra noobuser bloat that comes with Ubuntu default. This way I have a clean installation similar to Arch but without having to hand-configure everything.
- thenduks 16y ago
  As a fellow day-job-using Ubuntu user, I'm with you. In fact, it's not just this release, I always wait a bit to upgrade, since the general consensus seems to be that fresh Ubuntu's are often a bit touchy :)
  - regularfry 16y ago
    Not only are fresh Ubuntus a bit touchy, but upgrading in-place has bitten me badly in the past. It's always a clean-slate install for me now.
    - thenduks 16y ago
      Yea that too. I've heard bad things, but I've never even attempted it myself. Years of Windows has built up some serious negative reinforcement here :)
ioSami 16y ago
Already downloading.
BasDirks 16y ago
Both the launcher and the dash are awesome. Takes very little time to get used to.
chao- 16y ago
When last I used the Unity shell, it was clearly not ready for prime time. I'll spend some time later today, cross my fingers, and discover if that has changed or not. There's much more in a new release than just that, but the supposedly-cleaned up Unity will probably get most of the press. Some concerns aside, I respect a lot of the chutzpah that Canonical is showing: Unity, Wayland, trying to force KDE/GNOME to work together on a notification API. They want to see the Linux desktop improve, and even if people fight against them and they lose, to me it feels better than the inertia of the status quo. Stasis gets no one anywhere.
- jdub 16y ago
  Canonical have nothing to do with Wayland. Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post saying they wanted to use it (in a ridiculously unrealistic timeframe), but they've contributed nothing to meeting that goal. They haven't tried to "force KDE/GNOME to work together on a notification API". They did their own thing, then later on adopted and modified a KDE protocol (which in the first place didn't even do the primary thing they were aiming for -> menus), then complained about GNOME not adopting their code (which is a separate issue to the protocol). They're basically doing their own thing now, not paying a lot of attention (let alone contributing) to upstream projects.
  - chrismsnz 16y ago
    For those playing along, Jeff is heavily involved in the GNOME project and thus have a strong opinion on all these things. Much has been written on the indicator spat and the tension between GNOME and Canonical, and it seems that's there's not and end to be seen of it. Mark Shuttleworth has some thoughts (from the other side of the coin) on his blog here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 I'm not going to join in, but I have trouble reconciling the arguments "GNOME not adopting their code/protocol" and "not contributing to upstream projects".
    - jdub 16y ago
      GNOME rejected the libappindicator code and approach (largely because it was irrelevant and badly timed), but not the StatusNotifier protocol (as defined mostly by KDE, then once modified, the basis for libappindicator). The "not contributing to upstream" comment has a much broader context than that particular issue though. One late attempt to push something fairly irrelevant upstream does not define the entire context for their engagement. :-)
meric 16y ago
Ubuntu's website shows of its Dash "Spotlight", Launcher "Dock", Status Icons "Menu bar with status", Workspace "Spaces", Ubuntu Store "Mac App Store". It's almost like they're trying to directly compete with Mac OS X, with "killer features" that match exactly with what apple regularly shows off with Mac OS X.
- chao- 16y ago
  That's an interesting point. If so, would it not be a little misguided? I'd love to see some data one way or the other, but in my experience and among my friends and associates, people who buy Apple computers are incredibly likely to value the polished, "just works" factors of OS X and if they do care about being UNIX-like, it has them covered too. Then among those who run Linux as a primary OS, they do so without paying for the shiny Apple hardware. Again I stress this is a personal subset and I welcome it being corrected or confirmed by hard numbers. At the same time, perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way: If you have a goal of being the best desktop experience, then better to pit yourself against the best?
- Tichy 16y ago
  I think most of these things were actually on Unix/Linux first, just maybe not as pretty as on OS X.
  - riffraff 16y ago
    I'm pretty sure dash (quicksilver/spotlight) and the dock were in osx way before they appeared on linux.
    - regularfry 16y ago
      Docks of one sort or another have been around for years. RISC OS had a dock-like icon bar in 1987, GNUStep nicked one from NeXTStep in 1994, and I'm sure there are earlier examples.
  - krakensden 16y ago
    Lets go through the list: * Spotlight - OS X * Dock - NeXT * Spaces - X11 * Software Repositories - Debian [1994]
fingerprinter 16y ago
I've had it installed on my main machine since late December. There were some rough patches as things were landing during the beta period, but right now this is easily the best desktop I've ever used. My workflow adapted to some of the additions in Unity so quickly that it was absurd. At this point I could never go back to something without Super+#, Super+w, Super+s and the other keybindings found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts/28087#28087 http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-sh... Just be sure to install compizconfigSettingsManager from the software center and you can tweak Unity to some degree. Just an FYI, what I tend to dev on is Ruby/Rails, Python, Javascript (Node/etc), some Erlang (not as much anymore) and Android dev. This system is so freakin' fantastic for all of those...really quite happy.
- curtin 16y ago
  Those keybindings look awesome and make me want to upgrade. Guess I will try it out in a VM first though.
  - scrrr 16y ago
    You can burn the installation CD and run Ubuntu without installing as well.
    - Garbage 16y ago
      You can burn the image on USB drive and boot from it. Unetbootin can help for that. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
      - meadhikari 16y ago
        and wubi is always there if you use windows and want to give Ubuntu a try
  - sp332 16y ago
    You can install Unity alongside Gnome, and choose between them using the menu at the bottom of the login screen. To do this, open Synaptic, go to Settings -> Repositories, and in the Other Software tab click Add and paste this line: ppa:canonical-dx-team/une Save your changes, then click the Reload button in Synaptic. When the new package lists are loaded, install the package called Unity. When you log out, you should be able to choose "Ubuntu Unity Netbook Edition" from the menu on the login screen.
selectnull 16y ago
Since I've been using Ubuntu (year and a half now), upgrade was always easy, and always resulted in a month of little annoyances afterwards. But I look forward to it nonetheless. Upgrading now and feel like a kid on a christmas morning :)
enterneo 16y ago
aargh! I just installed it in Vmware Fusion on Snow Leopard only to realize it does not support OpenGL for Linux OS. Ubuntu went into a fallback mode and disabled Unity. Seems like I need to switch to a different Virtual Machine Software, any suggestions?
- mattdeboard 16y ago
  I really love Oracle's VirtualBox and use it daily for my dev environment.
  - vijaydev 16y ago
    Oracle's VirtualBox. Sad remembering the day Sun set.
- AnthonBerg 15y ago
  I don't know about VirtualBox and OpenGL, but I just installed Parallels and everything works swimmingly! Better native partition support and what seems like very good OpenGL acceleration. I also got native partition booting working very quickly in Parallels - I can boot both my native Windows 7 installation and my native Ubuntu installation - that are On Partitions Of The Actual Hard Drive. Took a tiny little bit of nudgework, but now it just goes.
JonnieCache 16y ago
I'd like to point out that this is a good time to really test your connection. I've never downloaded anything faster than a torrent of a fresh ubuntu release.
- beaumartinez 16y ago
  BitTorrent download speed has a lot less to do with bandwidth than with how many peers you can connect to, and downloading these things fresh there is often a lack of them. I BitTorrented the 64-bit Desktop edition it as soon as OMGUbuntu broke the news on Twitter and it took me around half an hour (for 700 MiB).
  - JonnieCache 16y ago
    Maybe not when its that fresh. By the time its top of HN and /. then there are gonna be a LOT of high bandwidth peers.
    - javanix 16y ago
      Yep. I usually find that most reasonably popular Linux distros will max out my down connection over torrents. Pretty nice way of telling whether my ISP is throttling or lying to me about my bandwidth.
- javanix 16y ago
  Though unfortunately upddate files are still distributed through centralized repositories. I wonder whether there'd be major security concerns if a torrent layer was stuck over the main centralized backbone? It could probably reduce bandwidth costs for hosting and provide better speeds to people, though keeping the "swarm" updated might be kind of tricky.
  - eschulte 16y ago
    +1 for this idea, I think "eventually updated" should be largely sufficient for a generally one-way change like repository updates. I'm "live updating" right now, and the time estimates jump between 2 hours and four days depending (I believe, given the stability of my schools internet connection) on the load on the ubuntu repositories.
buster 16y ago
Just in time for my new laptop, perfect. I am eager to see the Unity interface! :)
scrrr 16y ago
This is exactly the right direction for Ubuntu. I'm installing this remotely on my dad's computer as I type this. The shortcut keys (using the Windows-button) are very useful and the dock-like launcher is a good replacement for the old task-bar. It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so.
- elithrar 16y ago
  I'll always wonder when keyboard manufacturers will replace the 'Windows button' with something more universal. Pressing Windows + key in a non-Windows operating system always seems so counter-intuitive to the everyday user.
  - thenduks 16y ago
    Amen! I use either an Apple aluminum keyboard (these days it's just 'command' and doesn't have an apple on it) or something completely blank.
- cageface 16y ago
  It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so. I'd like to think so, and they're doing a great job, but I can't help but feel they're a few years too late. I suspect general email & browsing is going to happen more and more on tablets and phones and people will only want full-blown computers to run specialized native apps, most of which will probably never be ported to Linux. Of course, thanks to Android, Linux will be more relevant than ever in this scenario.
  - king_jester 16y ago
    For consumers that can afford it, tablets may replace a lot of what a desktop computer does for those people, but there are many people who are lower income who will still depend on very inexpensive desktop computers, either ones the own individually or (more likely) ones that they can access at their local library. I think Ubuntu is heading in a direction where it will replace Windows for users that only need an office suite and a web browser but need to use a cheaper desktop machine.
jhawk28 16y ago
Updated our server. Only issue was that I needed to reinstall Mercurial.
- joshfinnie 16y ago
  What benefits over the 10.04 LTS does this release have for the server? All I am hearing about it Unity, have you seen an improvement?
  - SkyMarshal 16y ago
    I'd like to know this too. Ubuntu Server is headless. I tend to stick with the LTS versions even for my desktop unless something really amazing is introduced in a subsequent non-LTS version.
  - speleding 16y ago
    From what I read: - better AppArmor - "PowerNap" (reduces power consumption by 14% by selectively disabling cores on certain Intel hardware. - "private clouds" (don't know what that means) - Latest Linux kernel (2.6.38 vs 2.6.35)
bergie 16y ago
I've been running this on my MacBook Air for a couple of weeks now. Some rough edges, especially with GNOME3 from a PPA.
- olsonjeffery 16y ago
  FYI for other users: installing Gnome3 via UGR (http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/ http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/) will break your unity install. Ubuntu (and Unity) is still Gnome2-based (I haven't heard anything, yet, concerning a move to Gnome3 for a future release). So upgrading to Gnome3 is a one-way upgrade and will break your Gnome2-dependent environments. Although I've done a ppa-purge to uninstall the UGR packages and things seemed to have gone back to normal, pretty much.
mjs 16y ago
I find the description of which image to choose confusing. You need the a 64-bit image to handle processes over 4GB, right? Why is the x86 version recommended for "most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows." (That's from the server description, too.)
- ra 16y ago
  No. Memory > 4GB is not a reason to use 64bit. If you want to address > 4GB of RAM on 32bit, install the PAE kernel. I think the meta package is called linux-generic-pae. Use 64bit if you want to run applications that will benefit from it. EDIT: If in doubt, use the 32 bit one as it will give you less friction for general purpose desktop use.
  - reitzensteinm 16y ago
    He said processes accessing more than 4 gb, not total memory - aren't individual processes are still limited to 4 gb of memory with PAE?
    - jsprinkles 16y ago
      Less depending on where the kernel split is. 3 GB under Linux usually.
    - postfuturist 16y ago
      I don't know the technical reason, but most 32 bit apps on Linux are limited to 2GB (2^31 bytes).
      - nitrogen 16y ago
        As jsprinkles alluded to in his post, the 2GB limit (or 1GB or 3GB, depending on kernel configuration) is to allow space for the kernel.
  - chokma 16y ago
    If you want to upgrade to 11.04 with a PAE kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, be careful: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/772226 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug...
ra 16y ago
I got nervous with Ubuntu releases when 9.10 came out, and it was really buggy; definitely shouldn't have been released in that state. This time round I upgraded a couple of nights ago from the repos, and I'm pleased to say there have been no dramas.
- cgoddard 16y ago
  I've had the 11.04 beta installed for a few weeks now, and though there have definitely been some bugs that have come up, even the beta of natty has been really stable overall, much more so than some of the previous Ubuntu releases.
aashu_dwivedi 16y ago
I always was a little skeptical about unity , and thought I'd rather go with the gnome3 , but consider it a peer pressure or whatever i am upgrading to unity as I type this :) [and yeah i'm every bit excited] , cheers .
aashu_dwivedi 16y ago
I always was a little skeptical about unity , and thought I'd rather go with the gnome3 , but consider it a peer pressure or whatever i am upgrading to unity as I type this :) [and yeah i'm every bit excited] , cheers .
2mur 16y ago
I'm not going back to linux on the desktop until it can sleep my laptop reliably. OSX is so nice for that. Just close the lid and go... I can't imagine working any other way now.
- jamesgeck0 16y ago
  I've been able to sleep my laptop (mostly) reliably since 2006. It all depends on what hardware you have. The "mostly" is because in 2007, ATi released an update to their catalyst binary blob driver that broke sleep and hibernation. I try to steer clear of non-open source drivers now.
  - sandGorgon 16y ago
    Arrandale chipsets (Core i5 and i7) have suspend resume issues with the intel graphics chipset. This affects systems like Dell Latitude. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=28739 https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=28739) The fix is available in kernel 2.6.38 ( Ubuntu 11.04 is 2.6.37) I run Ubuntu 10.10 with a PPA 2.6.38 kernel to get around the problem. Please note this problem is at the kernel level - going Fedora will not help. Ubuntu is more or less the only OS I use currently - sleep/suspend/resume issues still exist. I do hope they integrate projects like TuxOnIce, etc. into the mainline - I would gladly pay couple of hundred dollars to have working sleep/resume on Ubuntu laptops. Considering that Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus would have about 15-20 models at one time (considering the motherboard + wireless), I'm surprised there is no third party company providing supported Linux - for companies like KSplice, this could be another line of business.
    - axiak 16y ago
      11.04 is using 2.6.38
      - sandGorgon 15y ago
        true - my mistake. Although you should also know that 2.6.38 and 11.04 has a mysterious power management bug that increases laptop battery usage significantly. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?48656-Mobile-Users-Beware-Linux-Has-Major-Power-Regression http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?48656-Mobile-Users... All said and done, IMHO it's not worth upgrading to 11.04 right now.
larrik 16y ago
Serious question: Do any of you use Avant Window Navigator? How does Unity compare with it?
cgoddard 16y ago
Been using Unity and natty for a few weeks now. The only feature I really miss from the gnome interface right now is the ability to add / move / remove toolbar widgets. Has anyone figured out if it's possible / how to do this in Unity? Overall I feel a lot more productive with Unity. The numerous super- functions are really helpful and nifty. I especially like the super- 1-9 for positioning/resizing windows on the current monitor.
T_S_ 16y ago
Can I upgrade a Ubuntu 10.10 machine in-place? Don't worry its a VM.
- moreati 16y ago
  Yes, Update Manager should prompt you. If it doesn't then run: update-manager -c
  - T_S_ 16y ago
    Thanks. Right you are, right after a reboot the prompt appeared. Maybe that's why my question was gathering (-1, Moron) downvotes. Remember people, there are no stupid questions only stupid users.
malkia 16y ago
Heh, just installed ubuntu-10.10-dekstop-amd64 on my EverRunNote notebook. Now this came out :) Btw, there is no ubuntu-10.10-notebook-amd64 - probably because there are not many 64-bit notebooks?
- sciurus 16y ago
  You should install ubuntu-11.04-dekstop-amd64. There was never a notebook version of Ubuntu. For a while, they had a separate "netbook remix" that you could download and install, but that has been discontinued.
Symmetry 16y ago
I was very impressed by Unity, I'd been using a tiling window manager for a while but after rebinding some miscellaneous shortcuts to Super+(right hand key) I'm totally happy with it.
enterneo 16y ago
I am wondering, if Unity isn't supported due to lack of hardware acceleration, does it fallback to Gnome2? (does it mean it still bundles Gnome along with Unity?). This is essential to make a choice between Xubuntu and Ubuntu when running in a VM
- LeonidasXIV 16y ago
  Yes, it does fall back to "Ubuntu Classic", how it is called.
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krat0sprakhar 16y ago
Ok... this seems pretty much out of place but I dont suppose I can get a better answer anywhere else, so here it goes. I'm a student in India and in a dilemma about buying a Mac or buying a windows machine (dual booting with Ubuntu 11.04 ). At about 3/4th the price of a Mac I can purchase a more powerful windows laptop and boot up Ubuntu ( and thus avoid windows altogether ). I need a workstation for Ruby on Rails/ Node development. Since my parents will be the one paying, I want to be sure if Mac is worth it. I've never worked on a Mac before but since I've read that most startups that are hiring offer Mac to developers, I'm guessing owning a Mac would really make development more enjoyable. Would love to hear your guys' thoughts on this. Thanks a lot.
- SoftwareMaven 16y ago
  Preface: I develop on a Mac. There is no easy way to answer this question. You can definitely get a more powerful PC for the price. With the Mac, you are buying some brand, some better construction, and a lot of better customer service. You are also buying OS X, which may or may not be attractive. I used Linux for many years as a primary development machine, and it was great. Ubuntu is doing a good job solving the "there is no good desktop for Linux" that was pretty true five years ago. That said, I prefer my Mac because I get almost the same ability to play at the command line (I spend most of my day in Emacs right now, including running my shells there), but I also get a refined experience when I'm interacting with applications outside of development (e.g. Garage Band, Pages, Keynote, etc). In the end, I didn't switch for development, I switched for all the time I use my laptop when I'm not developing. For me, it was worth it, but YMMV.
  - abstractfactory 16y ago
    Thread hijack... If you use Emacs all day on a Mac, what do you use for the Meta key? I find I'm not really happy no matter what I do. If I make Option into Meta, I have to bend my thumb way under my palm to hit Meta. If I make Command into Meta, then I lose access to lots of global Mac UI shortcuts. I guess I could experiment with swapping Option and Command and then using Option as Meta, although I'll have to retrain a lot of muscle memory. And then there's the fact that one Emacs window in a terminal is still not as productive as five Emacs windows under X11, and X11.app still sucks, and the various native Mac Emacs ports still don't feel right to me. Overall I find using Emacs on Linux X11 still provides the best Emacs experience. This alone will probably keep me on Linux as my primary work environment for the foreseeable future.
lhnn 16y ago
I've had it for a little bit, but I went back to Ubuntu Classic when I saw I couldn't add a "Show Desktop" to the panel... Between gnome-do and the window snapping feature a-la Windows 7, "Ubuntu Classic" works well for me. Besides, I'm experimenting with moving all my servers to Debian Stable. It's interesting how much Ubuntu does for you automatically...
mmaunder 16y ago
Why is it so hard to find a changelog for the server edition of 11.04?
zenocon 16y ago
i'm shopping for a new laptop to put this on. i'm looking for something maybe like the samsung series 9. ideally, i'd like it to be as slim as that, but have a 15" screen. anyway, looking for laptop HW recommendations from others here. i've run ubuntu on a number of thinkpads before, but i want to buy a new laptop to replace my MBP.
- zenocon 16y ago
  just ordered the samsung series 9 from costco 1549 free shipping. read some ubuntu forum pages that said natty works great on it.
urza 16y ago
Are there any up-to-date statistics how many people uses ubuntu? Ideally also compared to other linux distributions, windows, osx.. Google gives me only few years old numbers or estimates, I guess its not easy to do these kind of stats?
taken11 16y ago
upgrade failed, unity/compiz does not work with my graphic card. none of that detected, worst ubuntu upgrade so far.
alienfluid 16y ago
The upgrade's going - another 40 minutes or so. Pro-tip for people with laptops that have switchable graphics - Go into your BIOS and set the default to "Discrete graphics" and not "Switchable". Otherwise Ubuntu will default to integrated and you'll miss out on all the fancy animations.
hartror 16y ago
12 hours later I think I have everything working as I intend . . though my productivity is still taking a hit trying to find various things.
leon_ 16y ago
So, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 - but I use awesome-wm instead of gnome. Is it worth to upgrade to 11? After reading the comments here it seems like the big thing about 11.04 was the new gnome shell.
lurker19 15y ago
On Sandy Bridge graphics,X server freezes or flickers everytime anything interesting happens, like screensaver or suspend or console switching. New graphics bugs are reported daily. My X has frozen hard 6 times in 2 days. Nvidia drivers have some trouble also. In short, 2011 hardware is not compatible with Unity or Compiz at all. Legacy Metacity is slightly better, and disable all power management to get a mostly stable system..
lurker19 15y ago
Networking is extremely flaky in my home LAN. Since I set up a new box with natty, my box had been crashing my actontec DSL modem. There are some workarohbds online for disabling ipv6 and restarting wifi when he module crashes and the indicator Applet loses its connection to he network-manager service.
paulkoer 15y ago
WARNING: Installing Natty may brick your Macbook Pro https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089 http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31505951.html http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31... I really love ubuntu, but if you have a macbook pro be careful! I may have to have my logic board replaced!
stuartcw 15y ago
I have upgraded and a all of the CPU hogging problems I have been suffering recently have gone away. I am very happy with the upgrade so far.
SergeyHack 15y ago
I'm so regretting upgrading to 11.04. There are a lot of small but annoying bugs. It has just lost my custom keyboard shortcuts. It installs privacy-questionable program and don't give any warning about that (zeitgeist package).

441 points by SandB0x 16y ago

mise 16y ago

Dare you?

dawson 16y ago
about 7 minutes remaining :)
mise 16y ago
I did dare. I'm in, but it took getting very scared looking at a black command prompt with no gui. Doing "sudo apt-get remove flgrx" (to reset the graphics settings) did the trick. After a couple of restarts I was in.

Garbage 16y ago

A short list of whats new in Ubuntu 11.04 - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/whats-new And features - http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features

mhw 16y ago
Also worth a quick look through the release notes - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes
nateberkopec 16y ago
Man, Ubuntu's changed a lot since I used it last (8.0 days). They've taken a lot of UI cues from the mobile space (app stores, launchers) and adapted it to the desktop.

unwind 16y ago

Of course, this is the release that changes the desktop interface around quite a lot. I'm a bit hesitant, although this answer in the FAQ was soothing: No problem at all. You can choose to launch the classic desktop experience when you log in to your computer. Not sure if this really means that the choice has to be re-made on every login, or if is remembered. Anyone?

johkra 16y ago
It's remembered. (I have been running it since beta 2 on my work computer.)
- unwind 16y ago
  Great to hear, thanks. Now I'll be more likely to do the update.
jsvaughan 16y ago
It remembers. My laptop can't run Unity so I've been running the beta in classic mode, only needed to select it once.
- Canopy 16y ago
  Do you mean that Unity requires more resources ?
drivingmenuts 16y ago
You don't get a choice if you run it in a VM, btw. It's classic or aught.
- wbond 16y ago
  What virtualization program are you running? If you are using VirtualBox you can run apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils. You'll also need to enable 3D support under Settings > Display.
  - dave1010uk 16y ago
    Just did this: it works.
  - sunsu 16y ago
    Though Unity works as expected (awesome!), there still seems to be some other bugs with VirtualBox integration. A big one for me is that seamless mode doesn't work when running 11.04.

lwhi 16y ago

As I use my Ubuntu desktop to actually get work done, I'm quite terrified about installing this release. I'm not sure I'll upgrade for a while yet, I want to find out what the general consensus is first.

crocowhile 16y ago
That's why I moved to ARCH a few years ago. Only once did an an arch upgrade caused problems; with ubuntu it was a pain almost everytime.
- doublerebel 16y ago
  Arch tends to keep configuration formats and file locations between major versions. I've found that with Ubuntu, simple things like mouse button config change drastically between versions. I love Arch on the server but Ubuntu is just too easy and has so much software available for the desktop. For the last few Ubuntu versions I start with Ubuntu Minimal (30MB instead of 690MB) to avoid all the extra noobuser bloat that comes with Ubuntu default. This way I have a clean installation similar to Arch but without having to hand-configure everything.
thenduks 16y ago
As a fellow day-job-using Ubuntu user, I'm with you. In fact, it's not just this release, I always wait a bit to upgrade, since the general consensus seems to be that fresh Ubuntu's are often a bit touchy :)
- regularfry 16y ago
  Not only are fresh Ubuntus a bit touchy, but upgrading in-place has bitten me badly in the past. It's always a clean-slate install for me now.
  - thenduks 16y ago
    Yea that too. I've heard bad things, but I've never even attempted it myself. Years of Windows has built up some serious negative reinforcement here :)

ioSami 16y ago

Already downloading.

BasDirks 16y ago

Both the launcher and the dash are awesome. Takes very little time to get used to.

chao- 16y ago

When last I used the Unity shell, it was clearly not ready for prime time. I'll spend some time later today, cross my fingers, and discover if that has changed or not. There's much more in a new release than just that, but the supposedly-cleaned up Unity will probably get most of the press. Some concerns aside, I respect a lot of the chutzpah that Canonical is showing: Unity, Wayland, trying to force KDE/GNOME to work together on a notification API. They want to see the Linux desktop improve, and even if people fight against them and they lose, to me it feels better than the inertia of the status quo. Stasis gets no one anywhere.

jdub 16y ago
Canonical have nothing to do with Wayland. Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post saying they wanted to use it (in a ridiculously unrealistic timeframe), but they've contributed nothing to meeting that goal. They haven't tried to "force KDE/GNOME to work together on a notification API". They did their own thing, then later on adopted and modified a KDE protocol (which in the first place didn't even do the primary thing they were aiming for -> menus), then complained about GNOME not adopting their code (which is a separate issue to the protocol). They're basically doing their own thing now, not paying a lot of attention (let alone contributing) to upstream projects.
- chrismsnz 16y ago
  For those playing along, Jeff is heavily involved in the GNOME project and thus have a strong opinion on all these things. Much has been written on the indicator spat and the tension between GNOME and Canonical, and it seems that's there's not and end to be seen of it. Mark Shuttleworth has some thoughts (from the other side of the coin) on his blog here: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/654 I'm not going to join in, but I have trouble reconciling the arguments "GNOME not adopting their code/protocol" and "not contributing to upstream projects".
  - jdub 16y ago
    GNOME rejected the libappindicator code and approach (largely because it was irrelevant and badly timed), but not the StatusNotifier protocol (as defined mostly by KDE, then once modified, the basis for libappindicator). The "not contributing to upstream" comment has a much broader context than that particular issue though. One late attempt to push something fairly irrelevant upstream does not define the entire context for their engagement. :-)

meric 16y ago

Ubuntu's website shows of its Dash "Spotlight", Launcher "Dock", Status Icons "Menu bar with status", Workspace "Spaces", Ubuntu Store "Mac App Store". It's almost like they're trying to directly compete with Mac OS X, with "killer features" that match exactly with what apple regularly shows off with Mac OS X.

chao- 16y ago
That's an interesting point. If so, would it not be a little misguided? I'd love to see some data one way or the other, but in my experience and among my friends and associates, people who buy Apple computers are incredibly likely to value the polished, "just works" factors of OS X and if they do care about being UNIX-like, it has them covered too. Then among those who run Linux as a primary OS, they do so without paying for the shiny Apple hardware. Again I stress this is a personal subset and I welcome it being corrected or confirmed by hard numbers. At the same time, perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way: If you have a goal of being the best desktop experience, then better to pit yourself against the best?
Tichy 16y ago
I think most of these things were actually on Unix/Linux first, just maybe not as pretty as on OS X.
- riffraff 16y ago
  I'm pretty sure dash (quicksilver/spotlight) and the dock were in osx way before they appeared on linux.
  - regularfry 16y ago
    Docks of one sort or another have been around for years. RISC OS had a dock-like icon bar in 1987, GNUStep nicked one from NeXTStep in 1994, and I'm sure there are earlier examples.
- krakensden 16y ago
  Lets go through the list: * Spotlight - OS X * Dock - NeXT * Spaces - X11 * Software Repositories - Debian [1994]

fingerprinter 16y ago

I've had it installed on my main machine since late December. There were some rough patches as things were landing during the beta period, but right now this is easily the best desktop I've ever used. My workflow adapted to some of the additions in Unity so quickly that it was absurd. At this point I could never go back to something without Super+#, Super+w, Super+s and the other keybindings found here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-shortcuts/28087#28087 http://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/unity-keyboard-mouse-sh... Just be sure to install compizconfigSettingsManager from the software center and you can tweak Unity to some degree. Just an FYI, what I tend to dev on is Ruby/Rails, Python, Javascript (Node/etc), some Erlang (not as much anymore) and Android dev. This system is so freakin' fantastic for all of those...really quite happy.

curtin 16y ago
Those keybindings look awesome and make me want to upgrade. Guess I will try it out in a VM first though.
- scrrr 16y ago
  You can burn the installation CD and run Ubuntu without installing as well.
  - Garbage 16y ago
    You can burn the image on USB drive and boot from it. Unetbootin can help for that. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
    - meadhikari 16y ago
      and wubi is always there if you use windows and want to give Ubuntu a try
- sp332 16y ago
  You can install Unity alongside Gnome, and choose between them using the menu at the bottom of the login screen. To do this, open Synaptic, go to Settings -> Repositories, and in the Other Software tab click Add and paste this line: ppa:canonical-dx-team/une Save your changes, then click the Reload button in Synaptic. When the new package lists are loaded, install the package called Unity. When you log out, you should be able to choose "Ubuntu Unity Netbook Edition" from the menu on the login screen.

selectnull 16y ago

Since I've been using Ubuntu (year and a half now), upgrade was always easy, and always resulted in a month of little annoyances afterwards. But I look forward to it nonetheless. Upgrading now and feel like a kid on a christmas morning :)

enterneo 16y ago

aargh! I just installed it in Vmware Fusion on Snow Leopard only to realize it does not support OpenGL for Linux OS. Ubuntu went into a fallback mode and disabled Unity. Seems like I need to switch to a different Virtual Machine Software, any suggestions?

mattdeboard 16y ago
I really love Oracle's VirtualBox and use it daily for my dev environment.
- vijaydev 16y ago
  Oracle's VirtualBox. Sad remembering the day Sun set.
AnthonBerg 15y ago
I don't know about VirtualBox and OpenGL, but I just installed Parallels and everything works swimmingly! Better native partition support and what seems like very good OpenGL acceleration. I also got native partition booting working very quickly in Parallels - I can boot both my native Windows 7 installation and my native Ubuntu installation - that are On Partitions Of The Actual Hard Drive. Took a tiny little bit of nudgework, but now it just goes.

JonnieCache 16y ago

I'd like to point out that this is a good time to really test your connection. I've never downloaded anything faster than a torrent of a fresh ubuntu release.

beaumartinez 16y ago
BitTorrent download speed has a lot less to do with bandwidth than with how many peers you can connect to, and downloading these things fresh there is often a lack of them. I BitTorrented the 64-bit Desktop edition it as soon as OMGUbuntu broke the news on Twitter and it took me around half an hour (for 700 MiB).
- JonnieCache 16y ago
  Maybe not when its that fresh. By the time its top of HN and /. then there are gonna be a LOT of high bandwidth peers.
  - javanix 16y ago
    Yep. I usually find that most reasonably popular Linux distros will max out my down connection over torrents. Pretty nice way of telling whether my ISP is throttling or lying to me about my bandwidth.
javanix 16y ago
Though unfortunately upddate files are still distributed through centralized repositories. I wonder whether there'd be major security concerns if a torrent layer was stuck over the main centralized backbone? It could probably reduce bandwidth costs for hosting and provide better speeds to people, though keeping the "swarm" updated might be kind of tricky.
- eschulte 16y ago
  +1 for this idea, I think "eventually updated" should be largely sufficient for a generally one-way change like repository updates. I'm "live updating" right now, and the time estimates jump between 2 hours and four days depending (I believe, given the stability of my schools internet connection) on the load on the ubuntu repositories.

buster 16y ago

Just in time for my new laptop, perfect. I am eager to see the Unity interface! :)

scrrr 16y ago

This is exactly the right direction for Ubuntu. I'm installing this remotely on my dad's computer as I type this. The shortcut keys (using the Windows-button) are very useful and the dock-like launcher is a good replacement for the old task-bar. It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so.

elithrar 16y ago
I'll always wonder when keyboard manufacturers will replace the 'Windows button' with something more universal. Pressing Windows + key in a non-Windows operating system always seems so counter-intuitive to the everyday user.
- thenduks 16y ago
  Amen! I use either an Apple aluminum keyboard (these days it's just 'command' and doesn't have an apple on it) or something completely blank.
cageface 16y ago
It might take a couple more years but somehow I have the feeling that Ubuntu might be heading for the mainstream. Rightfully so. I'd like to think so, and they're doing a great job, but I can't help but feel they're a few years too late. I suspect general email & browsing is going to happen more and more on tablets and phones and people will only want full-blown computers to run specialized native apps, most of which will probably never be ported to Linux. Of course, thanks to Android, Linux will be more relevant than ever in this scenario.
- king_jester 16y ago
  For consumers that can afford it, tablets may replace a lot of what a desktop computer does for those people, but there are many people who are lower income who will still depend on very inexpensive desktop computers, either ones the own individually or (more likely) ones that they can access at their local library. I think Ubuntu is heading in a direction where it will replace Windows for users that only need an office suite and a web browser but need to use a cheaper desktop machine.

jhawk28 16y ago

Updated our server. Only issue was that I needed to reinstall Mercurial.

joshfinnie 16y ago
What benefits over the 10.04 LTS does this release have for the server? All I am hearing about it Unity, have you seen an improvement?
- SkyMarshal 16y ago
  I'd like to know this too. Ubuntu Server is headless. I tend to stick with the LTS versions even for my desktop unless something really amazing is introduced in a subsequent non-LTS version.
- speleding 16y ago
  From what I read: - better AppArmor - "PowerNap" (reduces power consumption by 14% by selectively disabling cores on certain Intel hardware. - "private clouds" (don't know what that means) - Latest Linux kernel (2.6.38 vs 2.6.35)

bergie 16y ago

I've been running this on my MacBook Air for a couple of weeks now. Some rough edges, especially with GNOME3 from a PPA.

olsonjeffery 16y ago
FYI for other users: installing Gnome3 via UGR (http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/ http://ugr.teampr0xy.net/) will break your unity install. Ubuntu (and Unity) is still Gnome2-based (I haven't heard anything, yet, concerning a move to Gnome3 for a future release). So upgrading to Gnome3 is a one-way upgrade and will break your Gnome2-dependent environments. Although I've done a ppa-purge to uninstall the UGR packages and things seemed to have gone back to normal, pretty much.

mjs 16y ago

I find the description of which image to choose confusing. You need the a 64-bit image to handle processes over 4GB, right? Why is the x86 version recommended for "most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows." (That's from the server description, too.)

ra 16y ago
No. Memory > 4GB is not a reason to use 64bit. If you want to address > 4GB of RAM on 32bit, install the PAE kernel. I think the meta package is called linux-generic-pae. Use 64bit if you want to run applications that will benefit from it. EDIT: If in doubt, use the 32 bit one as it will give you less friction for general purpose desktop use.
- reitzensteinm 16y ago
  He said processes accessing more than 4 gb, not total memory - aren't individual processes are still limited to 4 gb of memory with PAE?
  - jsprinkles 16y ago
    Less depending on where the kernel split is. 3 GB under Linux usually.
  - postfuturist 16y ago
    I don't know the technical reason, but most 32 bit apps on Linux are limited to 2GB (2^31 bytes).
    - nitrogen 16y ago
      As jsprinkles alluded to in his post, the 2GB limit (or 1GB or 3GB, depending on kernel configuration) is to allow space for the kernel.
- chokma 16y ago
  If you want to upgrade to 11.04 with a PAE kernel and proprietary Nvidia drivers, be careful: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/772226 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug...

ra 16y ago

I got nervous with Ubuntu releases when 9.10 came out, and it was really buggy; definitely shouldn't have been released in that state. This time round I upgraded a couple of nights ago from the repos, and I'm pleased to say there have been no dramas.

cgoddard 16y ago
I've had the 11.04 beta installed for a few weeks now, and though there have definitely been some bugs that have come up, even the beta of natty has been really stable overall, much more so than some of the previous Ubuntu releases.

aashu_dwivedi 16y ago

I always was a little skeptical about unity , and thought I'd rather go with the gnome3 , but consider it a peer pressure or whatever i am upgrading to unity as I type this :) [and yeah i'm every bit excited] , cheers .

aashu_dwivedi 16y ago

2mur 16y ago

I'm not going back to linux on the desktop until it can sleep my laptop reliably. OSX is so nice for that. Just close the lid and go... I can't imagine working any other way now.

jamesgeck0 16y ago
I've been able to sleep my laptop (mostly) reliably since 2006. It all depends on what hardware you have. The "mostly" is because in 2007, ATi released an update to their catalyst binary blob driver that broke sleep and hibernation. I try to steer clear of non-open source drivers now.
- sandGorgon 16y ago
  Arrandale chipsets (Core i5 and i7) have suspend resume issues with the intel graphics chipset. This affects systems like Dell Latitude. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=28739 https://bugs.freedesktop.org//show_bug.cgi?id=28739) The fix is available in kernel 2.6.38 ( Ubuntu 11.04 is 2.6.37) I run Ubuntu 10.10 with a PPA 2.6.38 kernel to get around the problem. Please note this problem is at the kernel level - going Fedora will not help. Ubuntu is more or less the only OS I use currently - sleep/suspend/resume issues still exist. I do hope they integrate projects like TuxOnIce, etc. into the mainline - I would gladly pay couple of hundred dollars to have working sleep/resume on Ubuntu laptops. Considering that Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, Asus would have about 15-20 models at one time (considering the motherboard + wireless), I'm surprised there is no third party company providing supported Linux - for companies like KSplice, this could be another line of business.
  - axiak 16y ago
    11.04 is using 2.6.38
    - sandGorgon 15y ago
      true - my mistake. Although you should also know that 2.6.38 and 11.04 has a mysterious power management bug that increases laptop battery usage significantly. http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?48656-Mobile-Users-Beware-Linux-Has-Major-Power-Regression http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?48656-Mobile-Users... All said and done, IMHO it's not worth upgrading to 11.04 right now.

larrik 16y ago

Serious question: Do any of you use Avant Window Navigator? How does Unity compare with it?

cgoddard 16y ago

Been using Unity and natty for a few weeks now. The only feature I really miss from the gnome interface right now is the ability to add / move / remove toolbar widgets. Has anyone figured out if it's possible / how to do this in Unity? Overall I feel a lot more productive with Unity. The numerous super- functions are really helpful and nifty. I especially like the super- 1-9 for positioning/resizing windows on the current monitor.

T_S_ 16y ago

Can I upgrade a Ubuntu 10.10 machine in-place? Don't worry its a VM.

moreati 16y ago
Yes, Update Manager should prompt you. If it doesn't then run: update-manager -c
- T_S_ 16y ago
  Thanks. Right you are, right after a reboot the prompt appeared. Maybe that's why my question was gathering (-1, Moron) downvotes. Remember people, there are no stupid questions only stupid users.

malkia 16y ago

Heh, just installed ubuntu-10.10-dekstop-amd64 on my EverRunNote notebook. Now this came out :) Btw, there is no ubuntu-10.10-notebook-amd64 - probably because there are not many 64-bit notebooks?

sciurus 16y ago
You should install ubuntu-11.04-dekstop-amd64. There was never a notebook version of Ubuntu. For a while, they had a separate "netbook remix" that you could download and install, but that has been discontinued.

Symmetry 16y ago

I was very impressed by Unity, I'd been using a tiling window manager for a while but after rebinding some miscellaneous shortcuts to Super+(right hand key) I'm totally happy with it.

enterneo 16y ago

I am wondering, if Unity isn't supported due to lack of hardware acceleration, does it fallback to Gnome2? (does it mean it still bundles Gnome along with Unity?). This is essential to make a choice between Xubuntu and Ubuntu when running in a VM

LeonidasXIV 16y ago
Yes, it does fall back to "Ubuntu Classic", how it is called.

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krat0sprakhar 16y ago

Ok... this seems pretty much out of place but I dont suppose I can get a better answer anywhere else, so here it goes. I'm a student in India and in a dilemma about buying a Mac or buying a windows machine (dual booting with Ubuntu 11.04 ). At about 3/4th the price of a Mac I can purchase a more powerful windows laptop and boot up Ubuntu ( and thus avoid windows altogether ). I need a workstation for Ruby on Rails/ Node development. Since my parents will be the one paying, I want to be sure if Mac is worth it. I've never worked on a Mac before but since I've read that most startups that are hiring offer Mac to developers, I'm guessing owning a Mac would really make development more enjoyable. Would love to hear your guys' thoughts on this. Thanks a lot.

SoftwareMaven 16y ago
Preface: I develop on a Mac. There is no easy way to answer this question. You can definitely get a more powerful PC for the price. With the Mac, you are buying some brand, some better construction, and a lot of better customer service. You are also buying OS X, which may or may not be attractive. I used Linux for many years as a primary development machine, and it was great. Ubuntu is doing a good job solving the "there is no good desktop for Linux" that was pretty true five years ago. That said, I prefer my Mac because I get almost the same ability to play at the command line (I spend most of my day in Emacs right now, including running my shells there), but I also get a refined experience when I'm interacting with applications outside of development (e.g. Garage Band, Pages, Keynote, etc). In the end, I didn't switch for development, I switched for all the time I use my laptop when I'm not developing. For me, it was worth it, but YMMV.
- abstractfactory 16y ago
  Thread hijack... If you use Emacs all day on a Mac, what do you use for the Meta key? I find I'm not really happy no matter what I do. If I make Option into Meta, I have to bend my thumb way under my palm to hit Meta. If I make Command into Meta, then I lose access to lots of global Mac UI shortcuts. I guess I could experiment with swapping Option and Command and then using Option as Meta, although I'll have to retrain a lot of muscle memory. And then there's the fact that one Emacs window in a terminal is still not as productive as five Emacs windows under X11, and X11.app still sucks, and the various native Mac Emacs ports still don't feel right to me. Overall I find using Emacs on Linux X11 still provides the best Emacs experience. This alone will probably keep me on Linux as my primary work environment for the foreseeable future.

lhnn 16y ago

I've had it for a little bit, but I went back to Ubuntu Classic when I saw I couldn't add a "Show Desktop" to the panel... Between gnome-do and the window snapping feature a-la Windows 7, "Ubuntu Classic" works well for me. Besides, I'm experimenting with moving all my servers to Debian Stable. It's interesting how much Ubuntu does for you automatically...

mmaunder 16y ago

Why is it so hard to find a changelog for the server edition of 11.04?

zenocon 16y ago

i'm shopping for a new laptop to put this on. i'm looking for something maybe like the samsung series 9. ideally, i'd like it to be as slim as that, but have a 15" screen. anyway, looking for laptop HW recommendations from others here. i've run ubuntu on a number of thinkpads before, but i want to buy a new laptop to replace my MBP.

zenocon 16y ago
just ordered the samsung series 9 from costco 1549 free shipping. read some ubuntu forum pages that said natty works great on it.

urza 16y ago

Are there any up-to-date statistics how many people uses ubuntu? Ideally also compared to other linux distributions, windows, osx.. Google gives me only few years old numbers or estimates, I guess its not easy to do these kind of stats?

taken11 16y ago

upgrade failed, unity/compiz does not work with my graphic card. none of that detected, worst ubuntu upgrade so far.

alienfluid 16y ago

The upgrade's going - another 40 minutes or so. Pro-tip for people with laptops that have switchable graphics - Go into your BIOS and set the default to "Discrete graphics" and not "Switchable". Otherwise Ubuntu will default to integrated and you'll miss out on all the fancy animations.

hartror 16y ago

12 hours later I think I have everything working as I intend . . though my productivity is still taking a hit trying to find various things.

leon_ 16y ago

So, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 - but I use awesome-wm instead of gnome. Is it worth to upgrade to 11? After reading the comments here it seems like the big thing about 11.04 was the new gnome shell.

lurker19 15y ago

On Sandy Bridge graphics,X server freezes or flickers everytime anything interesting happens, like screensaver or suspend or console switching. New graphics bugs are reported daily. My X has frozen hard 6 times in 2 days. Nvidia drivers have some trouble also. In short, 2011 hardware is not compatible with Unity or Compiz at all. Legacy Metacity is slightly better, and disable all power management to get a mostly stable system..

lurker19 15y ago

Networking is extremely flaky in my home LAN. Since I set up a new box with natty, my box had been crashing my actontec DSL modem. There are some workarohbds online for disabling ipv6 and restarting wifi when he module crashes and the indicator Applet loses its connection to he network-manager service.

paulkoer 15y ago

WARNING: Installing Natty may brick your Macbook Pro https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089 http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31505951.html http://old.nabble.com/Ubuntu-11.04-broke-my-MacBook-Pro-td31... I really love ubuntu, but if you have a macbook pro be careful! I may have to have my logic board replaced!

stuartcw 15y ago

I have upgraded and a all of the CPU hogging problems I have been suffering recently have gone away. I am very happy with the upgrade so far.

SergeyHack 15y ago

I'm so regretting upgrading to 11.04. There are a lot of small but annoying bugs. It has just lost my custom keyboard shortcuts. It installs privacy-questionable program and don't give any warning about that (zeitgeist package).