A couple of days ago I upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, also known as Hardy Heron. I not sure if I like it all. There is no Firefox 2 anymore, only the beta of Firefox 3, which basically means 90% of the plugins don’t work. No Google toolbar. Can you imagine?
Also, xmms is gone. I don’t want a media-organizer or streaming audio, I want a mediaplayer, and xmms is damn good at that. So I had to compile it from source, something I didn’t want to do anymore since I made the switch to Ubuntu.
My mouse (a Microsoft Trackball Explorer) worked perfectly in Gutsy via xmodmap, but something has changed in the X-server, and now everything must be done via xorg.conf. Not sure why, but it took me some time to figure it out.

But it’s not all bad. Compiz works perfectly now with the standard ATI drivers in the kernel. No more starting the computer, changing the loaded fglrx kernel module to the manually compiled one, and restarting X. It just works now.

And of course, the whole upgrade process was a breeze. Compare that to upgrading your Windows…