It seems to be a good time to live life with the new ubuntu 14.04. Ofcourse the startup time has increased, especially with the time taken after the login to show the desktop. But it has been a very painless installation. It is rock solid and reliable.
Previously on the Saucy and raring, it was like when the LAN was not connected, I would first check the network, the proxy settings, do ifconfig eth0 up, do netstat and reboot and then see whether the router was turned on. But now, with no crashes except for the ones that I have deliberately made, it seems that it is rock solid. The inclusion of additional drivers for direct installation is a breeze. I have so far converted two windows users into full time linux users. The only problem being I have to setup their computers for use. That would be quite difficult because of the drivers I have to install and setup for them. But now, it is a breeze. Apart from that there was another problem. It was with the refreshing of file lists for apt. Prviously, the file list would not refresh if any repos were added. This caused a lot of problems for the novice users when they said to me that there were no changes as they changed the repos. i would type sudo apt-get update in terminal and they would frighten. But now, it is no such trouble.
Apart from that there are a few things i would love all the ubuntu users to do. Firstly I suggest they remove the webbrowser-app. This is the new addition from the ubuntu touch team made to the distro. The reason why I say so is that lets admit no one uses that web browser. if that is removed, it means that then the web app integration is also removed as dependency and you can see a hell lot of difference in the startup time of apps, dash and login. Apart from that I have removed all the scopes except for home and all lenses except applications and files. this makes it even faster. Next comes the compiz plugins and then comes theming. Apart from that, I would suggest kingsoft office and steam. It seems to v\be a very good time to be using Ubuntu 14.04. After all the tahr can be trusted.
