Well, I had to give it a shot. I know this is "heresy", but I didn't find it completely horrible...after I tweaked it a bit.

Added inxi, gawk, Free driver (I had to get rid of that horrible FLGRX driver). Then I made the Terminal visible for easy access. After doing those things, the experience was much better.

Yeah, I agree. Microsoft users will love it.

I may add Gnome 3. I will see. Time to hang with the family.
Dave

System: Host: HP-Pavilion-dv5-Notebook-PC Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop Gnome Distro: Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric
Machine: System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC version: 048C100000242D10000020000
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 144E version: KBC Version 66.31 Bios: Hewlett-Packard version: F.26 date: 02/23/2011
CPU: Dual core AMD Phenom II N620 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4a svm)
Clock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card: ATI M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
X.Org: 1.10.4 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: vesa,fbdev) Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 7.12-devel (git-54346d1 oneiric-oibaf-ppa)
Audio: Card-1: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) driver: HDA Intel Sound: ALSA ver: 1.0.24
Card-2: ATI RS880 Audio Device [Radeon HD 4200] driver: HDA Intel
Network: Card-1: Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) driver: ath9k

Hey, horrible is in the eyes of the beholder. One persons fugly is anothers vincent van gogh or sistine chapel.

Throw a



and



readout in this thread also. Curious to see the bloat. I ran mine off of a persistent pendrive for just a few days. So I never delved into a real install of Gnome 3. Just curious.

Hey rok!
I haven't installed gnome shell yet, but here is what I have.


HP-Pavilion-dv5-Notebook-PC:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3794436 969696 2824740 0 41796 381748
-/+ buffers/cache: 546152 3248284
Swap: 7213052 0 7213052

HP-Pavilion-dv5-Notebook-PC:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 78G 3.3G 71G 5% /
udev 1.8G 4.0K 1.8G 1% /dev
tmpfs 742M 868K 741M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 1.5M 1.9G 1% /run/shm

Added Gnome-Shell and Ubuntu functions like Fedora. Definitely snappier than with Unity. Both Gnome and Unity give you a fair amount of eye-candy if you like that. At start up you can choose between Classic Gnome, Gnome 3 with 3D effects and Gnome 3 without effects. That also holds true for Unity. You get Unity 2D and 3D Unity.

Used these two sites for ideas to customize, in case any one is interested.

http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/10/15-t ... g-new.html

http://blog.sudobits.com/2011/09/08/10- ... ntu-11-10/

Dave