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

[frans]

Hi

I've also upgraded yesterday, quick and painless...from 10.04,

I did not loose any of my user data and it's on one partition :)

The best advice I can give is not to format your / partition if your 
/home folders are on the same partition.

Everything on my Packardbell-dot-S netbook works wonderfully, Lan,wi-fi, 
Bluetooth, graphics.

Speed are as good as can be expected on the attom 1.6 cpu and memory 
usage are now even lower it seems than with 10.04

I have not yet done more than a few clicks in unity but it does seem to 
remind me of the shift from win xp to 7, maybe just a lot easier... 
there is not 10GB of data capacity lost for the nice looks :)

Frans

On 11/05/01 08:19 AM, Nico Michael (pta at ibst) wrote:
> Hi there
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> My experience was the sound and video and networking worked with no problems and so I was pleased
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> regards
> Nick
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