I installed Ubuntu 9.04 this morning and for my delight I had proper wireless connection with just a few clicks. The nightmare is gone. Another great improvement in this release is performance. It only takes a few seconds to boot. A new OS release running faster on the same machine? Great.
The only drawback for me is that the Intel Graphics built into my laptop is not supported. No fancy visual effects right now. I have to check it later though. I’m using a Sony Vaio VGN-NR330AE that I bought while I was still living in Brazil.
As noted on my previous post I’m back to Gnome. KDE versions 4.0 and 4.1 didn’t work for me although KDE 4.2 seems to be really good. I might be wrong but I just have the feeling that Gnome is more stable. I also noted that I spend most of my time with 3 tools: Emacs, Firefox and the terminal. The first 2 are built upon GTK and the 3rd is great at both graphical platforms.