Already Lovin' Oneric

[1roxtar]

I have installed 11.10 since Alpha 2 and been running my updates on a daily basis. I am about a day away from the official Alpha 3 release and already I am loving 11.10. It (Unity 3D) feels much more responsive and faster than 11.04. Being an Alpha, I know it's still needs a lot of baking, but already I can tell that it's going to be a fantastic release.

I am one of those that is really diggin' Unity with my Ubuntu and as of today's updates, I am now able to also play around with the Gnome 3 Shell. There are things that I like about both, but I still lean towards Unity. The fallback to Unity 3D is no longer the Classic Gnome 2.x style, but Unity 2D. The 2D version is blazin fast. I can't wait to try it on a netbook.

Overall, I feel that 11.10 Oneric Ocelot will fix what was started and lacking in 11.04. And, in my opinion, by the time 12.04 LTS comes along Ubuntu will become even more recognized as a true heavyweight against the likes of Windows 8 and Mac OSX Lion. Ubuntu has been my primary OS since 9.04 and I get stoked with every release. You haven't let me down, so far, Mark Shuttleworth. I can't wait to see what the future holds.

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Cool, good things are coming with 11.10 and 12.04 :popcorn:


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[3Miro]

11.10 is giving me some trouble still, every now and then it will refuse to start Unity on login and I have to Ctr+Alt+F1. Other than that, it is coming great. I can't wait for them to fix the menu in classic mode to see how that works.

[Off Shore]

I have installed 11.10 since Alpha 2 and been running my updates on a daily basis. I am about a day away from the official Alpha 3 release and already I am loving 11.10. It (Unity 3D) feels much more responsive and faster than 11.04. Being an Alpha, I know it's still needs a lot of baking, but already I can tell that it's going to be a fantastic release.

I am one of those that is really diggin' Unity with my Ubuntu and as of today's updates, I am now able to also play around with the Gnome 3 Shell. There are things that I like about both, but I still lean towards Unity. The fallback to Unity 3D is no longer the Classic Gnome 2.x style, but Unity 2D. The 2D version is blazin fast. I can't wait to try it on a netbook.


Sounds brilliant. Maybe I shall give it a whirl in a week or two. Interested in your comment on Gnome 3.
Are you able to run it on 11.10 ?

[1roxtar]

Yes, I finally have a working Gnome 3 Shell. It isn't installed by default, but you can just fire up synaptic and search for Gnome Shell and install. Then you can log out and log back in choosing GNOME instead of UBUNTU. Since 11.10 is based off of Gnome 3, you don't have to worry about breaking Unity like in 11.04. The reason being is that 11.04 is based on the Gnome 2.x series.

[jasonrisenburg]

I found that by removing the applications and file icon in unity bar and adding classic menu icon to the top bar, I have made it similar to what aI like from old ubuntu (post plymouth) with some of the catchy flash of unity. and My bash is horrible. I did most by adding ppa's in the terminal. It was easy.

[johnnybgoode83]

Sounds great but I think I will wait until the final release before giving it a try. I too have been a Unity fan when I installed AWN and got my application menu (yes, I am slow on the uptake and did not realise I could until recently).

By the time of the next LTS, I believe Unity will be more than ready to compete with the big boys.

[3rdalbum]

Sounds great but I think I will wait until the final release before giving it a try.

Please don't.

There's issues with 11.10 currently, sure, but they'll probably be mostly ironed out by Beta 1. At that point I'd highly advise jumping in and reporting whatever bugs you find.

Waiting until release to report bugs is really too late.

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Please don't.

There's issues with 11.10 currently, sure, but they'll probably be mostly ironed out by Beta 1. At that point I'd highly advise jumping in and reporting whatever bugs you find.

Waiting until release to report bugs is really too late.

Well, not everyone wants to report bugs (some of us want to use our computers ;))

[FootySr]

Thanks for the information! Looking forward to jumping on board with the beta releases. :)

[ventrical]

I downloaded the Alpha 3 lastnight , stuck the oversized ISO (need DVD for this) in my Dell B130 Inspiron and WOW !!!

The Unity icons are just somthing else:) They have this cool, plasmoid, 3dish sort of pulsating effect and the whole Unity issue seems to be ironed out and it's real quick, not choppy , etc..

I plan to install it on an HDD later today.

Nice work :)

From a brief glance it looks, overall, more stable than it's predecessor.

[ventrical]

I installed Oneric 11.10 to a 40GB HDD on a Dell laptop B130 Inspiron and did a partial upgrade. (I just read inanother echo that this is not always advised). Anyways.. rather than trash the installation I proceeded to remove the hdd from the Dell and install it on an Acer Aspire 3620.!!!

Everything so far has worked right out of the box , as if it were an LTS version ! All I had to do was enter the WEP for my wireless.

I would have never been able to do this with commercial software.

Wow!

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And the Unity seems to behave like a Unity-Gnome friendly splice-ware or something. The Unity is there but it just seems less obtrusive.