Problems with ubuntu 11.04

[Colin Law]

On 9 August 2011 13:21, Andrew <andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> I recently upgraded to 11.04 from 9.10 and having some problems with it:
> it seems a bit unstable (and slow), although I may be a bit 'hardware
> limited' (running a rather old Dell Dimension system). Also problem
> getting my HP Color Laserjet 3500 to print colours correctly despite
> installing latest version of hplip-3.11.7.run
> Was I ill-advised to go straight to 11.04 and should I instead go
> 'back/down' to 10.04 which hopefully has had most of the bugs ironed
> out?

11.04 is fine as far as I am concerned.   It will be superseded by
11.10 in October (11 is the year and 10 is the month of release).
Ubuntu should certainly not be unstable and many find it noticeably
faster than running Windows on the same hardware.

How much RAM have you got?
Exactly what do you mean by unstable?  Give an example of the problem
in as much detail as you can.
In what way does it appear slow?  What activity takes longer than you expect?
When it is going slow is the disk light continually flickering for
tens of seconds (ie disc thrashing)?

Are you using the Unity interface (with the icons down the side) or
the Classic interface with the menus across the top?

Colin