OMGUbuntu have a (fairly similar) review: <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/ubuntu-11-10-beta-released-reviewed/" rel="nofollow">http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/ubuntu-11-10-beta-release...</a><p>The offical Ubuntu site has more juicy details: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta1#New_features_in_Oneiric" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricOcelot/TechnicalOverview/Beta...</a>
Looks like most of this release is about tweaking Unity. I was really excited about it at first, but I switched back to classic Gnome after three months. The extra screen space is nice, but it was too easy to lose my bearings.
> We had to revert from unity-window-decorator to gtk-window-decorator for performance reasons. This means that the "1 px border" for resizing window is back temporarily.<p>I hope "temporarily" doesn't mean until 12.04
Does anyone know if it will do any good for the dual gfx card laptops? These new acer series laptops have two graphics cards on them. One is the intel on board and one is the nVidia G-Force. It uses a technology called nvidia optimus to select one of them according to need. But Linux seems plain confused and always uses both the cards I think. Thus on windows laptops run for 4:30hr with everything turned on and it is just under 2 hours for linux.
No sign of fixes for the various bugs that cause Sandy Bridge systems to crash on suspend/hibernate and at random times, and adds an extra power regression: the self-destruct button has been expanded to more systems: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837266" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/837266</a>
Seems to be lots of love for Unity here. Where are my haters at?<p>I'd rather punch myself in the eye than use Unity. First thing I did was switch back to classic Gnome.<p>I think Linux Mint is heading in the right direction with Gnome. Also been thinking about switching to Xfce since I've been using the CL a lot more.
I was a big fun of ubuntu, and used it on my desktops and laptops, but in last few years Skype became a major tool for me, to communicate with my team, and since there is still no good Skype for Linux, I no longer use ubuntu. On a desktop I use Mac OS, laptop is no longer my central tool, and most of the work from the road I do on my iPad. Thinking to get a book air for long trips, where iPad just can't cut it yet :)<p>also, unity so far has been a disaster... I know about 5 friends who still use ubuntu, they couldn't use it with unity, and I helped them to get old gnome back. Hopefully unity will gets better, but this change I think was too big and wasn't optional. I think they lost a lot of users because of it.<p>But I still use ubuntu on some servers of mine.
It's interesting how much they want to include Openstack at the moment. On one hand side it is trivial to add the Openstack PPAs and install the new version yourself. On the other current upstream versions are quite far from being usable in a real environment and major redesigns are planned...<p>Why are they pushing for inclusion out of the box so hard?
unity is cancer. I loved it when it was just maximus for better screen state on netbooks and a few dashboards... but now, that's a travesty.<p>it's so wrong that they are adding feature and features to try to 'fix' it. tabs in the bottom, filters on the right... it will became a full window manager on the dashboard soon. just kill it.<p>i'm happy back to good old debian.