First off, I think it is important that I say that I'm the Ubuntu desktop manager working for Canonical. Even so, these are my views and my personal opinions....take them for what they are worth. <div><br></div><div>I've used all manner of desktops over the past couple of years (all Windows, OSX, Gnome2/3, KDE, XFCE...heck, I even tried Bodhi w/ Enlightenment) and using Unity for the past several months day-in and day-out makes me appreciate it more and more. I tend to customize quite a bit and do quite a bit w/ compiz that most might not (I do keep a stock machine just so I can always test the default experience) but I was amazed at how quickly Super, Super-# and Super-s became part of my workflow. Out of the box, Unity is by far the most usable desktop I've used, especially when you consider everything you get under the hood with compiz. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I also like the look-and-feel of Unity (admittedly, I like to install an icon pack, Faenza...I think Unity looks Fan-freakin'-tastic w/ the Faenza icons installed), which is probably debatable to some people...just my opinion. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Other things I really like in Natty are getting 'System Settings' for a one-stop-shop configuration area. Also like Banshee quite a bit and the new Firefox is really quite nice. U1 is is also VASTLY improved (not just the icon ;) ) and I find myself using U1 more and more and dropbox less and less (nothing wrong w/ dropbox...just dogfooding here and since U1 has gotten so good, there seems no need to keep Dropbox around). And LibreOffice w/ lo-menubar installed is great. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Things I'm not as pleased with are that more apps haven't updated to indicators from systray. I still like to have those there and I wish more apps updated to indicators. Perhaps by 11.10 we can get more to move to indicators and I'll be a happy camper.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my $.02</div><div><br></div><div>-Jason<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:13 PM, IKT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:noname420@gmail.com" target="_blank">noname420@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Heya,<div><br></div><div>Has anyone been mucking around with 11.04?</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think of it so far?</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>- ikt</div>
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