[ubuntu-za] Natty Narwhal Its very different and has interesting features

[Nico Michael (pta@ibst)]

Hi there

I thought I would write this email to show that I have got the Narwhal working , what amaized me is that on my old Centrino laptop it worked with no problems both sound and video worked

Although I had a rather bumpy ride to get it on my laptop (having lost every thing due to not knowing how to upgrade ) I consider this as lessons learned .
I did find the Unity GUI very different and it took me hours to find things and get my WIFI working

Thanks to the comments I got from my previous email I learned that you can create files (launchers)  so you can get your application available and not having to search for them every time you want to use them

I believe there are two improvements that could be made :
1) A favourites (Application button) so you can quickly navigate to those programs you use often rather than searching for them
2) A recent documents / files button

And yes I use Microsoft Office as my customers insist in sending me Office 2007 documents for that I installed Crossover and it works very well

Thanks to advice I was able to switch to Gnome at boot-up (Classic Desktop) and this helped me use the Narwhal till I get use to the Unity Desktop

So if you are considering to upgrade make sure you do your homework first and find out how to upgrade so you don't fall in the hole I fell in.
Backup all your data and I may be a good idea to keep your data folder in a different partition so that if you have an accident you don't delete your data

My experience was the sound and video and networking worked with no problems and so I was pleased

regards
Nick