It’s Sunday, I am terribly lazy and not in the mood to do anything. So, naturally, I booted into windows, installed the necessary BIOS update from Samsung, rebooted, crossed my fingers and hit the update button.
Reason for being a bit worried and holding off? Well, early reports on 9.10 sounded as if there were some chinks to be worked out. Plus, I am not exactly running a standard PC… I love my little cutsey netbook, but move outside the pre-installed established OS at your own risk. Main worry for me was my USB modem. It took some tweaking to get it running. No clue if that would hold up under the shiny new Ubuntu… and I don’t exactly have a spare net connection to fix things if it breaks down.
As you can guess from this post, that part worked out… more or less. It seemed to work out of the box, but then it recognised the USB modem as a USB stick, and while the network manager managed to connect, I couldn’t get on the Net. Unplugging and replugging solved that. Kind of curious if I have to do that every time now :)
Other than that: first impressions are good! The menu bars’ autohide feature is improved, providing me with more screen real estate (important on small screens). I still need to check some things:
- Does the printer still work?
- Does the automatic resolution adaption for beamer/tv still work?
- Do the Fn-keys work (quick test: seems as good as before)
But overall, first impressions are positive.