Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Upgrading to Natty Narwhal

I'm in-process currently on the upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 -> 11.04 (beta).  I love that (almost) all Ubuntu upgrades tend to go smoothly.  Let's hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot by making that statement.

Natty marks the shift from Gnome to Unity as the default desktop for the OS of choice for many a geek.  I'm not sure that I'll be making the jump...  I have a lot of muscle memory invested in shortcuts for compiz. Some call it eye candy, but I very much use the compositing features in my work flow.  Grouping/Tabbing windows is a godsend on my 13" Macbook Pro screen, where real-estate is definitely at a premium.  And call me silly, but I now find that windows that don't "wobble" feel somewhat incomplete... an ersatz, juvenile imitation of a window.

Anyways, hopefully my upgrade is painless and has some nice new features to play with.