Yes, I am a late adopter.

Only in March this year did I decide to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. This week my free disks from Canonical arrived and I decided to install Gutsy on one of my laptop’s partitions.

Why am I a late adopter?

Coming from a Windows background I am loathe to upgrade my operating system. Having worked with Linux for more than a year I should know better – but old habits are hard to break.

I enjoyed my experience with Feisty immensely – I still have it on my Laptop’s main partition, customized to my every whim and I absolutely love it.

With Hardy due to be released in 11 days I decided to order the Gutsy disks before they were no longer available – you see, being an old Windows user I am also used to new versions not running on my hardware – and I wanted to have Gutsy around in case Hardy did not support my old PIII lappy.

I remember when I first upgraded from Edgy to Feisty I remarked to my wife how much Ubuntu has improved in the six months between 6.10 and 7.04 – but I forgot about that when I inserted my 7.10 disk.

The level of improvement is AWESOME. That is the best description I have. Below is a short list of first impressions:

• Gutsy uses less ram than my feisty install.
• Visual effects run smoother.
• It is a lot more user friendly – in Feisty I needed to use synaptic to install flash, in Gutsy an automated installer runs straight out of the browser.
• It is not necessary for me to edit xorg.conf by hand – there is a gui tool available that works well.

All in all I can say I am impressed. And I can’t wait to order my Hardy  disks as soon as they are available. And again I remarked to my wife how much Ubuntu has improved release on release. If this trend is true for Hardy Heron, I submit that Windows 7 is already yesterday’s news.

Below are two screenshots – one with cube, and my desktop. They are reduced in size in order to fit better here.

My Dekstop:

Playing with the Cube:

Yes. Windows is not an option anymore – and I do not base that only on flashy desktop effects, overall Ubuntu (and many other Linux distros for you hard core fans)is better polished and user friendly.

Microsoft – you now need to meed the standard because you are no longer setting it.

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