Holy fuck I wish they would just stop dicking with the damn thing.<p>No, do not want more and more stuff added to this or that. I would really like it if things would Just Work on more and more hardware, especially more recent hardware.<p>Fix the stuff that doesn't work quite right, and leave the rest alone. Let users add the bling they want later on.<p>It's like they're in some battle with Microsoft to see who can add the most superficial crap that gets in the way of just doing stuff.
For those of you that don't have Ubuntu natively installed on your computer (such as myself) there is a great answer to this problem: VirtualBox <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.virtualbox.org/</a> . I installed it recently on my XP laptop, and now enjoy Ubuntu in what seems to be native speed. In fact, my dev environment of slime/emacs sbcl is runing radically faster than lispworks slime/emacs in xp. I have a dual screen setup, so I have Ubuntu in full screen mode (you can switch out with ctrl f) in one monitor, and xp in the other. Life is good.