Ubuntu 11.04

Okay, so I have 2 instances of 11.04. One of them is on Momiji and I don't have much of a problem with it beside that one of the kernel upgrades actually used more of the processor than the kernel before it so downgrading wasn't really fun because of the weird yaboot boot loader configuration stuff (I'm used to GRUB).

Anyway, to the meat of the matter. The other installation is on Lie-chan. And while it works decently enough, I only installed it for GRUB2 since openSUSE 11.3 (and I think 11.4 as well) only offer GRUB1 as the "stable" version (and I don't want to even attempt LILO). Blah, anyway...

Apparently, the ATI Radeon X1650 Pro is not compatible with the default Unity desktop that 11.04 ships with, so it forces classic instead. While it does work, I've had the panel applets' configuration files "corrupt" and GNOME asking if I want to keep the applet in the panel or delete it. Never had anything like it happen with any other installations anywhere else... At first I kept it, but then it would duplicate my applets upon next boot. After that, I just deleted it and it stays permanently gone. Whatever.

Beside that, it seems for some reason Nautilus (in 11.04 and 10.10) doesn't like FTPs and has a very hard time downloading/staying connected to the FTP (the FTP by the way is Shizuma).

Tthe PPA Launchpad "repository" thing is a little awkward seeing how I'm used to the YaST package/repository manager and zypper now that I know how to use zypper well. It's just weird that the PPA thing is a separate command from the apt-get... With zypper I can easily add a new repository and install programs with one command, but PPA is essentially quicker since there's less to type, but it gets a bit confusing what exactly I need to type for it...

 Don't get me wrong though. I think Ubuntu is a great distribution, but for how I use it, it's a bit too broken for me.

Otherwise, I really don't use Ubuntu much, seeing how I can do everything I want to do in openSUSE 11.3 and some of the tricks I learn with Ubuntu I can apply to openSUSE (with a bit of tweaking).