<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Roger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arelem@bigpond.com" target="_blank">arelem@bigpond.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello all<br>
Well after reading all the hype and bad press surrounding the latest Raring Ringtail I upgraded 12.10 and am soooo glad I did.<br>
12.10 was crap, slow, shut down frequently, messy, and so on.<br>
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I would not recommend using the GUI update system because it failed 3 times.<br>
13.04 installed from the terminal without a hitch, clean neat efficient. 2 and a half hours later I have a lightening fast, clean, perfect install<br>
I will run further updates and test it hard.<br>
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It needs to run Drupal 7 and 8, Inkscape, Gimp, Rails 4 and ruby 2 and the usual Geany, Audacity, program editors and office stuff.<br>
Thank yo to the Ubuntu Team for an excellent piece of work.<br>
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Regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Roger</font></span><br></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I am running both 12.04 and 13.04, both are super. The former is running on a mini Asus system with Cedarview drivers, which are not supported, but still works well. 13.04 is on a 3 yr old HP laptop and is clean and crisp. 13.04 will run on the Asus but very slow. Lubuntu runs like a charm on it. I installed 13.04 on my wife's touch screen and it works very well,aside perhaps from a few touch screen issues such as windows decorations that are too small and placed too close to the launcher. Of course there is a variety of experiences such as yours, Roger. We've heard a bit of grief about Windows 8.<br>
<br><br>garyk<br></div></div>