Hi all, I thought I would provide some general feedback from my experience with Ubuntu Gnome. Before this weekend i had no problems with the 3 or 4 installs i had done. I speculate that is because of the older nature of the hardware (anywhere from 2years old to 8 years old). However i just received my new Galago Ultra Pro from System 76 and i had a heck of a time. (For those who dont know this is a company that specializes in machines that rjn Ubuntu) First i tried 13.10. The install went fine and the only thing i did was setup 3 partitions and i selected the defaults. When i booted in for the first time I was unable to log in. I clicked on the user name but no password prompt. I dropped to the cli and was able to log in there just fine. So i rebooted few times then gave up and inatalled Antegros. This went fine and I am comfortable with Arch to a point (i run it at work daily). I decided to take another go with Ubuntu Gnome. This time i tried 14.04. I couldnt get past the installer with the alpha 1, alpha 2 or any of the 3 nightly builds i have previously used. I went and redownloaded 13.10 iso and tried that again. I wiped the machine got through the install and was finally able to log in. This time however i had all kinds of problems with network manager. Wifi worked fine but it wasnt detecting eth0. On the cli I used dhclient manually and that would bring the interface up just fine. I checked network/interfaces, as it is supposed to, only the loop back was defined there. I then followed various online guides for working with NetworkManager.conf. I finally got the device to show in network manage (i had to uninstall it completely, remove the /etc related files, reboot than reinstall) but when toggling the device to on, nothing would happen. I tried working the gnome3 ppa into the mix but the updated packages introduced other problems i didnt want to fix I gave up and put on Xubuntu and then installed gnome shell. This was super ugly. Things seemed to work ok but this time i could not create any vpn connections regardless of installed packages or how many reboots. I plugged in the ppa and installed ubuntu gnome desktop. That helped somewhat with the ugliness but this still looked off. In addition i started to have login problems (intermittent) again. I redownloaded 13.10 ubuntu gnome and wiped the computer again. Install wen fine but this time rebooting brought me to busybox prompt. Examining the errors it appeared that it could mount the root device. I tried to fix that (verified root uuid and the fstab, was able to chroot into the partition just fine). At this point i used chroot to do-release-upgrade to 14.04. I have been successfully running 14.04 for a day using this method. I have been able to do everything i need and have had no crashes but man what an unfriendly user experience. I would rate this as advanced skill level activity because doing a do-release-upgrade from inside a chroot (from a live usb) is not a normal process. Like i said at the beginning i have to imagine that its due to brand new hardware (even though all parts are certified for ubuntu). I have 3 laptops (2 on 12.04) running with problems as well as a handful of vms. I should also note that versions less than 13.10 produced kernel panics during initial boot of livecd/usb/pxe boots. Just thought i would share my 1 bad experience trying to install on brand new hardware Steve