I took the plunge and upgraded to Oneiric Ocelot, version 11.10 and I must say that I not that impressed. Under 11.04, performance was better, the system seemed snappier and Flash games and video behaved better.

Thanks to a comment left by Richard Ewing I have configured Compiz to make the Unity bar smaller, which makes things a bit better.

I have a Samsung N150 Plus laptop and Ubuntu was unable to find any suitable settings for the video. This may not of helped with performance but I have found a fix, sort of. There is a PPA available (maintained by Fortunato Ventre – Vario) which has software for Samsung laptops (Samsung-tools, Samsung-backlight, Samsung-Wifi). Since installing it, things have improved a bit but at least I now have control of the screen brightness from the keyboard shortcut.

As a website developer, blogger and user of social media sites, I really need an OS that can keep up. If I can’t get a real improvement over system performance then I will try out Linux Mint and see how that goes.

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