First Impressions
Well, first impressions are really very good. Considering that I installed from an alpha version of the LiveCD, installation went very smoothly. Managed to reformat using the inbuilt GParted widget and get to the very end of the installation process before grub didn’t want to install. Luckily I have quite a lot of experience with grub due to Gentoo installs, so that was easily rectified.
Ubuntu has, amazingly enough, managed to auto–detect pretty much everything. Even ACPI sleep works – something I never got working under Gentoo. Need to sort out hibernation but that’s probably not going to get used that much. Right now I’m running a dist–upgrade, and then its time to try out AIGLX and Compiz for some nice prettyness.
Anyway, time to transfer some documents back over and get the laptop set up.