I've been with Ubuntu since 6.x, Dapper Drake. And so far, my favorite, smoothest, least buggy, prettiest, and fastest starting release, was 9.10, Karmic Koala.
I had problems with 10.04, and it's gotten worse with 10.10. And I seem to be troubleshooting something every time I sit at the machine.
Weird startup noises, all sorts of troubles with Plymouth, always restart with an 800x600 resolution, had to wrestle to get things like the battery applet back in the panel, audio problems, wireless driver problems... it's just always something. I don't enjoy Ubuntu like I used to. I've even started looking at different distros, but I'm just not in the mood to relearn all the ins and outs (synaptic vs yum and so forth).
But I'm hesitant to go *back* in editions.
Is this a bad idea?
I'm *hopeful*, that the worse that can happen is I wont like Natty when it's released either, but can stick with Koala while I start looking at other distros. Right? Any risks I'm overlooking on going back to 9.10?
Any advice?
Thanks!
-zami
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