I just fired up the beta on my MacBook Pro (which hasn't had an upgrade since 7.10) and... wow.
No hardware issues, everything installed itself, even my keys light up again. Multiple monitor support has gone from being a 3 hour configuration nightmare to two clicks.
Far and away the best bit is the UI polish. It seems to have everything functional I liked about clunky old KDE 3.x (window shading! focus on mouse!) plus all the good bits they could swipe from OS X and Vista.
However I wish they would enable the dark theme by default, it looks much better than the light one. None of the review screen shots do it justice.
This looks very nice. I finally installed Ubuntu Hardy on my main desktop and got dual monitors working after a lot of hassle, but now I'm excited to try this out. Going to hold off on the beta until a final release though
The first time I've ever had dual monitors working in Linux was two days ago when I installed Intrepid. It took a couple of clicks and (unfortunately) restarting X. Compiz doesn't work with Xinerama (multiple screen support) either. I don't really need the extra space, so I stick with my large monitor and turn off the laptop display.
[+] [-] notauser|17 years ago|reply
No hardware issues, everything installed itself, even my keys light up again. Multiple monitor support has gone from being a 3 hour configuration nightmare to two clicks.
Far and away the best bit is the UI polish. It seems to have everything functional I liked about clunky old KDE 3.x (window shading! focus on mouse!) plus all the good bits they could swipe from OS X and Vista.
However I wish they would enable the dark theme by default, it looks much better than the light one. None of the review screen shots do it justice.
[+] [-] natrius|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] truebosko|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] natrius|17 years ago|reply
[+] [-] PieSquared|17 years ago|reply
So now I'm just downloading an ISO and trying that first.
[+] [-] ash|17 years ago|reply