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Ubuntu 11.04 – My Experience So Far

I'm sure people are probably fed up of reading these by now. I know there's several threads on this topic over on the Ubuntu Forums, for example. Nonetheless, what I have experienced so far is this (don't worry, it's short):

Crashing. Lots of it, mainly compiz it seems. Yes, I know we're only on Alpha 2 and yes, I expect alpha releases (of anything) to contain bugs. But still, I don't even have to have done anything for compiz to crash! Admittedly, it could be my video driver (I have an Nvidia 9800GT) that's the cause, I just don't know.

This is the first time I've tried Natty, and I like the the idea of Unity, I really do. From what I gather through reading various blogs on Planet Ubuntu I understand it's come a long way since UDS-N, I just hope it can make it further than it is now in time for the April release. I know April 28th is a good 2 months away, but from experience, those 2 months will go far quicker than people often want them to.

Update: A comment from Jorge tells me why I experienced what I did: "Nvidia is broken on A2+, just waiting for the final Xorg 1.10 and nvidia drivers to land. (I’ve been keeping my Xorg bits held back this whole time)". I'll have to keep an eye out for when these land in Natty, and try it again then. Hopefully I'll have better look then! Thanks for the info Jorge