[ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

[Linux Lingam]

dear all,

what would you recommend:
to create a stable workstation on my apple macbookpro,
should i move up from the nice and solidly-working ubuntu 9.04,
to 11.04, or to 11.10?

canonical and mark shuttleworth's stance on unity and no more defaults of gnome
make me a bit queasy. also don't know how stable  a workhorse would 11.10 be.

under macosx, a clever utility called 'time machine' does a wonderful
GUI & eye-candy driven
approach to incremental backups and archives.

noticed 11.10 will offer deja-dups. anybody using it, or with any
experience with it?

TIA

regards
niyam

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niyam bhushan