Trying Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

Few days ago, I downloaded a beta version of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal to try. A new GUI called Unity look nice, give more room to view but it hard to use. To switch from one application to another application, I much click more. Folks at UbuntuForums.org showed me how to back to the Classic GUI.

If a geek is getting difficult in playing Unity in Ubuntu 11.04, how come an ordinary user can use. It look like Canonical turn away a lot of users beginning with this version. The key point of a sucess operating system is a usability. It must be easy to use.

Ubuntu Grub Error

After I tried all three methods suggested at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20GRUB%202, I decided to delete the partition for Ubuntu 10.04 and put Karmic Koala 9.10 on my hard drive. This time, a little bit better, I got a grub menu and booted in Windows XP. For Ubuntu 9.10, I got this error "No Such Device 1466abf9-419b-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX".

I clicked e to edit the command list. After several attempts to delete the command, I found delete command "search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 1466abf9-419b-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX" fixed the problem.

After I got into Ubuntu 9.10, I modified grub.cfg to not run the grub search command and upgraded to Lucid Lynx Beta 2. I guessed somehow grub and my hard drive did not get along. This work around fixed grub error out of disk and no such device.

Ubuntu

When I followed Google related news, I noticed many people mentioned about Ubuntu. So what is the Ubuntu? Ubuntu is a GNU/Linux Operating System. I tried it and liked it.