First Look at Natty Narwhal - Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity 5

Posted by JD 05/04/2011 at 19:00

A first look at Natty Narwhal, aka Ubuntu 11.04, under VirtualBox 4.0.6. I’m coming from this as a daily user of Lubuntu 10.04 LTS. I don’t use Gnome much as I find it bloated and slow.

I’ve been using Natty for about a week. In general, I like the new interface. It isn’t nearly as big a change as others would have you think. It is easy to change to a different interface like the old Gnome or even the Unity-2D for the graphics impaired machines, like mine. Give it a week and learn the keyboard shortcuts, I think you’ll like it. I found myself trying to use them on my non-Natty systems and missing those shortcuts when they weren’t available. That says something to me.