Hello. as my internet was working, I was going to try 12.04 alpha one, then noticed alpha 2 was coming out, so I waited and download alpha 2.
My computer:
DELL Inspiron-531S
AMD X2 dual core processor 5000+
3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GForce 6150 LE
Here are my impressions so far:
-The nouveau NVIDIA driver is much better, and desktop effects work much smoother than in the past with them. (although they aren't good yet at handling 3-d software and games on my computer)
-The sound notifications are absent, but the forum instructions fix this.
-Booting into KDE has become a few seconds faster than 11.10
-the drivers enabled pressure senstivity on my CTL-460 wacom tablet, which they didn't in 11.10
-Reconq has improved it's speed in that it's starting to catch up to Firefox, which is important if it has to be the default browser.
-The new Ubuntu medium fonts are a LOT better on 12.04 than the regular fonts in 11.10, as they seem more space-economical.
-Moun Package Manager is much better when it comes to notifying you of dependencies, but somehow when I first opened it, it broke the font rendering, so I had to go to system settings to render them manually. (It could also be the fault of starting Lancelot, but either way the problem stopped occuring after configuing the fonts manually)
-The Update Manager is much more convienent and good looking, but I wish it would show package updates individually, rather than in one cycle.
-Muon Software Center is better when warning about removing some packages, but I hope in newer updates that they finally show in apps how many bytes to download after all the dependencies needed with them.
-(Not the fault of Kubuntu) My favorite application Blender at this point is at 2.59 in the software repositories. I hope before the feature freeze it hits at least 2.61: that was the milestone release that has really wonderful features, to the point that it clogged the blender website in demands.
-Ever since 11.04, ubuntu distrobutions have not been able to set display resolutions correctly for the GRUB2 bootloader my 1440x900 monitor. The problem persists in this release, although it's easy to resolve anyway.
Overall, however, it's really responsive, and a step faster than 11.10. I hope 12.04 becomes perfect in the end!
My computer:
DELL Inspiron-531S
AMD X2 dual core processor 5000+
3 GB RAM, NVIDIA GForce 6150 LE
Here are my impressions so far:
-The nouveau NVIDIA driver is much better, and desktop effects work much smoother than in the past with them. (although they aren't good yet at handling 3-d software and games on my computer)
-The sound notifications are absent, but the forum instructions fix this.
-Booting into KDE has become a few seconds faster than 11.10
-the drivers enabled pressure senstivity on my CTL-460 wacom tablet, which they didn't in 11.10
-Reconq has improved it's speed in that it's starting to catch up to Firefox, which is important if it has to be the default browser.
-The new Ubuntu medium fonts are a LOT better on 12.04 than the regular fonts in 11.10, as they seem more space-economical.
-Moun Package Manager is much better when it comes to notifying you of dependencies, but somehow when I first opened it, it broke the font rendering, so I had to go to system settings to render them manually. (It could also be the fault of starting Lancelot, but either way the problem stopped occuring after configuing the fonts manually)
-The Update Manager is much more convienent and good looking, but I wish it would show package updates individually, rather than in one cycle.
-Muon Software Center is better when warning about removing some packages, but I hope in newer updates that they finally show in apps how many bytes to download after all the dependencies needed with them.
-(Not the fault of Kubuntu) My favorite application Blender at this point is at 2.59 in the software repositories. I hope before the feature freeze it hits at least 2.61: that was the milestone release that has really wonderful features, to the point that it clogged the blender website in demands.
-Ever since 11.04, ubuntu distrobutions have not been able to set display resolutions correctly for the GRUB2 bootloader my 1440x900 monitor. The problem persists in this release, although it's easy to resolve anyway.
Overall, however, it's really responsive, and a step faster than 11.10. I hope 12.04 becomes perfect in the end!
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