Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron or Barrel of Rotten Fish

The experience of updating to Ubuntu 8.04 has been a barrel of fun, well, pathetic pile of garage.

Besides the wireless issues I typically have, 7.1 worked perfectly straight outta the box. But 8.04 has not been quite as nice.

At first I updated. Which did not go well, but 700megs of bandwidth used. So, I performed a fresh install, which went reasonably well. Until I updated and got a new kernel, which killed everything.

So, fresh install #2 and I updated only a few components.

Fix the wireless through the normal route.

Next was very slow performance, for nearly everything. I probably need another gig of memory, but 7.1 never had an issue with it.

I tried compiz, and it was pretty much garbage, even though I had installed the restricted ATI drivers. So I followed this installation guide, which worked perfectly, compiz works perfectly.

But the overall system is still pretty slow, at least compared to Ubuntu 7.1, which appears to be related to my memory, and the systems desire to run virtual memory to the max, especially with Firefox3.

I think there is a bit more tweaking before this is running nicely, plus some visual changes to get rid of some of the turd brown Ubuntu setup.