The Ocelot has Landed!

[satchitb at gmail.com]

Everything seems snappier, but let's see how things go over time. The Dash
certainly opens up slower, and my shutdown time has gone from four seconds
to over eight.

On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM, John Niendorf <johnniendorf at gmail.com>wrote:

> For what it is worth, here are my thoughts on 11.10
>
> I'm running an Inspiron 1520.
>
> After upgrading, as opposed to a clean install, the file manager crashed
> almost every time I opened it.  I was advised on the forums to uninstall the
> Ubuntu One client and that seems to have solved that problem.
>
> I also had random cursor freezes which I was told might be solved by
> unchecking disable trackpad when using the keyboard.  That seems to have
> solved the problem.
>
> So far I don't see any great benefit from 11.10 over 11.04.  Maybe that
> will change as I use it more.
>
> John
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:40 AM, satchitb at gmail.com <satchitb at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Rob, it IS possible to change the size of the icons in the Unity launcher.
>> You need to install Compiz Config Settings Manager (ccsm), and change it in
>> the Ubuntu Unity Plugin. I must say that the default size is absolutely mad,
>> especially given that mounted devices appear there. Reducing the size and
>> removing mounted devices from appearing there is the only way that work can
>> be done.
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:29 AM, R. Potter <rpotter at zoncko.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think the only OS that has ever seemed to upgrade without issues
>>> consistently is OS X. I have had nothing but troubles with Linux and unless
>>> you are high, you should never try Windows.  I long for the day that Ubuntu
>>> is able to flawlessly upgrade in a consistent manner.
>>>
>>> - Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/13/2011 02:08 PM, Cory Sadowski wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't think I've ever had an upgrade go flawlessly either. There's
>>>> always SOMETHING that messes up...I finally seem to have gotten in the
>>>> habit of reinstalling every other version or better. I really wish
>>>> there was a way to ensure a smoother upgrade...in theory it all makes
>>>> sense, but then I'd have all sorts of weird things happening, like
>>>> mplayer's keyboard shortcuts being randomly remapped to crazy things
>>>> in the tty and vlc not working in the tty. One time I had Compiz break
>>>> in a bunch of weird ways too, culminating in a "hole" on the desktop.
>>>> Lots of other misc weird things too. It's a complicated beast, I guess.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Peter Ehlert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> FYI: The 11.04 "upgrade" _did_ break my system.  A freshly
>>>>> downloaded ISO installed on top of the damaged / and /home did not
>>>>> work. I ended up having to format the partition and reinstall from
>>>>> scratch.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/13/2011 11:59 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/13/2011 01:58 PM, Gareth McCumskey wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I haven't had a chance yet, still at work here and the last thing I
>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>> to do is upgrade the OS during the middle of a work day. But I sure
>>>>>>> am
>>>>>>> champing at the bit to get it installed!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your computer some how broke and you need to "reinstall" to fix it? ;)
>>>>>>
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