It’s long overdue, but I finally upgraded from Lucid to the newest version of Ubuntu on my desktop last week. Natty has a new look and feel than its predecessors from the last few versions. I’m actually reminded of a Mac OS a little bit, with the active window File Menu being at the very top of the screen, rather than in the open window. Somewhat scary since I hate Macs, but of course their OS is built on a Unix platform, so I guess it was just a matter of time. Not real sure which one I would rather not use, Mac or Windows.
Anyway, I think the new Natty has great potential but still needs some work. It seems to run slower than my previous install on the same machine. And I am not so sure that I like having no menus on the screen at all, but I am impressed with the search feature and the ALT-F2 feature for searching.
On the laptop I am currently typing on, which was also running Lucid, I did the upgrade to Meerkat through the Update manager and it seems to be working well. I thought for testing purposes I would just use 2 versions for a short while, and if I don’t like Natty I might downgrade for a bit until the LTS version is released, projected for April 2012.
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