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[Rob <makitso@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

I know you guys have a lot of release-ciritical issues to deal with.  
However, I would like to pass on to you my recent experience with the 
11.10 release.

Initially, I installed 11.04 Lubuntu on my Gateway netbook and was very 
surprised and delighted with the experience.  It was very fast, clean, 
professional, and functional.  I installed the Cairo dock and was very 
happy.

Then I upgraded the netbook to 11.10 and it all changed.

First of all, the Cairo dock has a bug (fails to detect that xcompmgr is 
running) so I can't use it (not your problem I know).

Second, the performance has taken a significant hit.  IMO, 11.10 boots 
slower, and seems to lag on any screen click.  Takes longer to launch 
applications, etc.  Thinking it was an upgrade issue I did a clean 
install and experienced the same behavior.  Also, as a minor point and I 
know this is really subjective and can be changed, but 11.04 had a 
better color for its default theme, blue top with white letters.  It was 
really classy.

So, I have gone back to 11.04 on my netbook and now run Lubuntu 11.04 
and 11.10 in Virtualbox to do testing.  Even in that environment I can 
notice the difference in performance between the two releases.

I understand that you guys do packaging and that the basic Ubuntu 
release is out of your hands.

2 cents.