BTW, I switched over to Maverick a couple of days ago. The way it works on
my system id that I have two partitions for Ubuntu, one is for my everyday
use and is the latest stable version and the other is for experimental
releases such as Maverick. Around beta time I usually install the beta on my
everyday partition replacing the stable release (Lucid).

It is the first time that I have used the new installer. WOW! I'm impressed.
Mint users will be annoyed because now you can check a box to install the
restricted extras so multimedia will work out of the box. Gone is that
advantage. But you can also check a box to install updates at the time of
installation. But the nicest thing is that it begins to download and install
while you are still typing your personal information. Nice! It was fast and
slick. The only problem is that it wanted to encrypt home and I could not
de-select it. I hope they fix that, but everything else went smoothly.

I am using Kubuntu, but have Ubuntu installed as well. Ubuntu still does not
have anything on the right of the window bar and the buttons are on the left
as with Lucid. Kubuntu has KDE 4.5 which is the best desktop environment
that I have ever used. It is fast and stable. I looks great and has lots of
toys to play with, just the way that I like it. The Settings Manager is
totally redone. I got lost trying to change settings. It will take awhile to
get used to it. It has nice monochrome icons like Ubuntu has, except nicer
because it is KDE which just looks lusher due to all of the plasmoids and
transparencies. The whole fresh installation took only a couple of hours to
get things back to the way they were on Lucid. That includes installing,
updating, installing all of the apps and customising. It took the longest to
get Tweetdeck installed. I forgot how I did it so it was trial and error.

You need Adobe Air to get it to work which is no problem to install even on
64-bit, but the Tweetdeck java does not work with my 64-bit Ubuntu. It said
installing, but never did. I had to search for a download on a separate
site. Google came to the rescue. C|net had it. Once I got that it opened in
Adobe Air and I was back in business. It looks great and works well. It is
now my go to Twitter and Identi.ca client.