Should I upgrade my Netbook to Ubuntu 11.10?

[gtarox999]

I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my Acer aspire one netbook. Should i upgrade to 11.10? And if i do, will there be any significant changes in performance, battery life, etc?

[drawkcab]

11.10 is fine but you will probably need to go with a lighter desktop like xfce or even lxde. Another option is to go with Linux Mint Debian edition which runs full Gnome 2.x on my eeepc.

[kio_http]

I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my Acer aspire one netbook. Should i upgrade to 11.10? And if i do, will there be any significant changes in performance, battery life, etc?

I tested Ubuntu and variants on my netbook. See the result here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1889502). Gnome 3 did not work so well for me. Mine is an Eee PC with Intel Atom n280 and 2GB Ram. HDD not ssd

[nothingspecial]

I find 11.10 with either Unity or Gnome Shell too slow on my aspire one netbook. Not unusable, just too slow for me. Lubuntu on the other hand flies.

[kio_http]

I find 11.10 with either Unity or Gnome Shell too slow on my aspire one netbook. Not unusable, just too slow for me. Lubuntu on the other hand flies.

If this netbook is 2009 or newer, I bet Windows Vista would run fine on it :KS. I tried!

[gtarox999]

Thanks, I think i'll try lubuntu 11.10 on it.

[CDR Services]

if there is no real reason to upgrade from 10.04 i would leave it alone i have tried many different linux builds on mt a150 and the newer the version the slower it works the smoothest build was 9.04 but no support for that now so I would stay with 10.04!

[deonis]

NO WAY... It is better to use 12.04 LTS Alpha than 11.10. It was horribly slow on my Samsung N145... removed it and now using 12.04 alpha ...about twice as fast as 11.10.

[gtarox999]

I also installed Mac4lin on 10.04, how would it look in 11.10?

[marl30]

On a system that Windows Vista, 7, and Kubuntu 11.10 runs super fast, I find Ubuntu (Unity) to be much slower than these other OSs, and it doesn't handle free open source 3d games like Urban Terror as well as the other OSs. So you probably better off sticking with what you have, or at least go to 11.04, which was a lot faster, until the next LTS.

[wolfen69]

I find 11.10 with either Unity or Gnome Shell too slow on my aspire one netbook. Not unusable, just too slow for me. Lubuntu on the other hand flies.

Same experience here. Lubuntu was the answer.

[Ichtyandr]

I use 10.04.3 on eee-pc 1005p and see no reason to upgrade. It receives security and other updates, can install anything on it, much more responsive than windows seven it initially had, good battery life etc.
Lxde and xfce variants are also good, but I am used to gnome and they usually seem to be lacking in something compared to standard ubuntu, but your experiences may vary.
Unless you really need something in oneiric, perhaps new kernel, I guess there is little reason to upgrade.

[makitso]

I have a gateway LT31 netbook. It is dual booted with WIN7 and Lubuntu 11.04. Tried 11.10 Ubuntu, both with Unity and G3 shells but the performance was poor even with 2GB memory. Lubuntu was so awesome and it fly's.

[Paqman]

11.10 is fine but you will probably need to go with a lighter desktop like xfce or even lxde.

Not really, Unity-2D works fine on a netbook. Unity works really well on small wide screens (not surprising since it was originally a netbook interface).

[CDR Services]

I tried Mac4lin as well on 10.10 it looked great but it did slow things down a bit! with all the eye candy!

[mamamia88]

I highly reccomend xfce on netbook. I tried unity on mine it worked but was a little sluggigh imo

[jimrz]

Thanks, I think i'll try lubuntu 11.10 on it.

have had Lubuntu 11.10 running for several weeks on my old Dell mini9 and am really liking it. It has been fast, stable and pretty much without any problem