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I just upgraded to Natty Narwhal. It was an experience.
I started the Update Manager and told it to Upgrade. First thing it did was to tell me that some of my Software Sources are not Ubuntu's. No kidding. It gave me the option of disabling them or doing something else. I don't know what would happen if I chose the something else, but I just disabled them. I could always enabled them later, right? Well, I just tried it and it seemed to work.
First thing I discovered was that it needed 2½ hours to download. Almost 3 GBs! Start it up and wait. It when without any hitches.
Now it wants to upgraded the applications. OMG, 8 hours! Then, after thinking about it a bit, it said 10 hours. Better and better. OK, let it run for a bit longer. Gee, it's down to 2½ hours; does that sound familiar?
So I sat there and watched it for 1½ hours. Then I had to go out but I left it running. Came back in about ½ hour and a dialogue box had popped up. After clicking OK, it said there was 1 hour left. In other words, it had just popped up shortly after I left. Why couldn't just go ahead without any need for user interaction? Bad, Natty, bad!
Finally, after a few more pop-ups, it was done. Time to reboot.
Rebooted. Logged in. Up comes Unity. Looks nice. Let's see what it can do. Clicked on the menu and selected games. It showed 5 games and 5 more I could download. The first 5 games in alphabetical order. Where are the rest? No scroll bars or arrows. How can I get to the rest? Played around with it for a while. It showed only the first 5 applications of every category. Hmmm. Time for some help.
When to the Ubuntu's forums and searched there. Nothing. OK, see about customizing the menus. A few postings. Hmmm, can't create custom menus in Unity. Can get other applications by typing their name. If I wanted to do that, I would use a terminal.
OK, logged out. Looked at the bottom of the login screen. Chose "Ubuntu Classic" and logged back in. Bye, bye Unity, hello GNOME. All my menus and desktop are back. No more Unity for me.
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