My System76 Laptop (Compal CL90) has been stuck on Lucid Lynx for a long time and while I did manage to upgrade to Maverick using some trickery (installing the lucid kernel) and the problem is reported but not going away with the latest release 11.10, I’ve decided to upgrade anyway.
The reason why I’ve upgraded despite not being able to use the proprietary nvidia driver is thrice: a) Unity is much more mature, b) The Nouvau driver is much better now and c) My computer was getting crufty jugglers with great big bushy beards with no kernel updates and needed culling after more than a year of active development on the same desktop.
So far I’m happy with the release, it’s stable, I’ve removed mono, Banshee and Thunderbird and installed Rhythmbox, Evolution, Inkscape and Gimp to get started. Hopefully I won’t need to use the 3D support for anything, although it’s looking surprisingly okish.
What are your thoughts on the new release?