Not so fast. Desktop versions of new Ubuntu distros all require 3d support. And you can easily run into an obscure problem [1] that would have you reconfiguring

Not so fast. Desktop versions of new Ubuntu distros all require 3d support. And you can easily run into an obscure problem [1] that would have you reconfiguring graphics for a half a day and result in an unusable system, even if you'd try to go back to an old kernel. [1] an example: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69928 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69928