The Hardy beta rocks my world…
So the latest Ubuntu release, Hardy Heron, is rapidly approaching. I dropped the beta on my laptop a few days back, and Holy Shit am I loving life. I’ll be completely whiping my Gutsy partition as soon as I get the chance!
I’m reading a lot of chatter about people being none too pleased that Hardy’s going to ship with Firefox 3 beta. The difference between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 is night and freakin’ day — it’s like a different browser! I’d stopped using Firefox 2 in Gutsy completely, except for the occasional debug session in Firebug — I would actually prefer to RDP into my Windows desktop at work just to use the Firefox 3 beta just to keep more than a few tabs open at a time.
Finally, all is right with the world. Other than the browser bump, though, I can’t quite put my finger on what it is about Hardy I’m loving so much. It’s fixed a few quirks I couldn’t squash in Gutsy, like suspend (hibernate seems to almost work too — it doesn’t freeze up anymore). The visual refresh is beautiful — I’ve already received several compliments on the wallpaper — and really, typically, who even notices the wallpaper?!
Overall, it just feels nicer. Like they say, when you do things right…