A Saturday, new Ubuntu in the Downloads folder. What is it that you expect a linux user to do?
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on Lenovo X201. I had 10.10 installed previously. I decided not to upgrade, but to clean install. It didn’t give me upgrade options anyways.
Post installation, here are some of the things I faced / enjoyed
Bootup time almost 25 seconds, it was around 15-20s for 10.10. A BIG downside for this release!
The Dash feels much quicker. However the gnome-shell still feels snappy as opposed to dash
I fuckin love the WebApps concept in Unity – That has actually made me stick to Unity.
Search in Unity still makes you click – as opposed to gnome-shell – Search the right string and hit Enter. That doesn’t work in Unity
I hated the original Alt+Tab utility in Unity, so installed Compiz Configuration Settings Manager (originally ccsm – so don’t search for that in apt). I replaced it with Static Window Switcher. It worked but then strangely started showing bugs of ghost windows moving in and out of the gray bar – little distracting, but didn’t break anything. (I was too careless to resolve conflicts ЁЯШЫ – Was that the reason ?)
I adore the complete integration of Social World into the top-right corner of Ubuntu. You name it, Gmail (the Web App of that one is “рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдмрд╛рдд !рдХреНрдпрд╛ рдмрд╛рдд !” It shows the unread mails in Inbox, TagX, TagY, all in that top-right corner dropdown). O… continuing with integration – Facebook, Twitter, Chat, etc. However I’m an old time user of Pidgin, and have tonnes of logs in Pidgin which I don’t want to lose. I have no idea how to make Pidgin as the default integrated chat client into GNOME3 and Unity alike. – Help would do. Thunderbird too integrated nicely since the last release.
Ubuntu – Amazon Nexus – Naaah ! Disabled the “Online Search Results” from the “Privacy” application
I’m not a big fan of the Dark Ambiance theme, but with the other themes support in terms of UI elements, logos, etc.. I’ve got to stick with Ambiance atleast for now. I would’ve preferred the old GTK2 based Clearlooks theme.
Score: 7/10 – All the marks getting lost for the tacky compiz and inability to change defaults easily without installing other apps.