Well, so far so good. Got Ubuntu 7.10 installed on my aging Dell Inspiron 8000 laptop. I still had to manually configure my xorg.conf file for proper 1400×1050 display. My display is not even usable at boot time off of a fresh install. It looks like a scrambled satellite channel. I have to boot with Knoppix and fix my xorg.conf file manually. This is the third release that Ubuntu cannot get right in this aspect. I’m sure Dell is a little to blame for this too. In comparison openSUSE installs flawlessly on this laptop and correctly sets up my xorg.conf file. In my opinion openSUSE has better hardware detection anyway. But this isn’t a rant on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a solid distro and it’s remains one of my favorite. I’m not sure that upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 is worth it really but I’m a sucker for the latest and greatest. Afterall, I upgraded from openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 and there wasn’t anything major in that release either. As long as I get a stable desktop experience with some improvements for my efforts then it’s worth it.