I downloaded Alpha 6. I've been using Ubuntu since about 7.04. I've tried
Alphas and Betas but never got sold on a new version of Ubuntu based on an
Alpha, until now. I liked the little "this is what Ubuntu can do for you"
during the install. After the install, I got a kind of an orange startup with
vertically moving sparkling lines. After the boot up was done I got a
notification that my hard disk was failing along with a hard disk icon on the
menu bar with an exclamation mark on it. Although I was disconcerted about the
idea of my drive going bad I thought "wow this is great!" Everything ran great
despite the "failing drive". I also noticed the USS (Ubuntu Software Store) on
the menu.

I like the idea of the Ubuntu Software Store but it has a kind of one at a time
thing. When I use Synaptic I go in and check off a bunch of things all at once
and then hit apply, It would nice if the USS was more like that.

After I did an update, the orange startup screen was replaced with a kind of a
chocolate brown screen with a horizontal line. I liked the chocolate brown
better than the orange. I was disappointed the vertical animation was replaced
with the horizontal. When the boot up was done, the notification of my drive
going bad was gone (I had already figured the "bad drive" notification was a
glitch). I noticed the USS was gone but assumed it would be back in one of the
future updates. Everything ran great.

The only draw back was that XP was not shown on the Grub menu. So I thought
"forget XP, I don't use it anyway". So just a day later, I installed Alpha 6
again. This time I used the entire drive for Ubuntu. This time, after the
update I got different results. The orange screen changed to brown just like
before and the failing drive icon went away. But this time the USS stayed and
the old icons were replaced with much better new ones.

I won't list all the things I like, but as I told my wife, if I had to pay for
the version of Ubuntu that's on my system now, I'd buy it. And I'm a very picky
person and a big complainer. However I've only used it for about three days so
who knows what bugs might show up. I've been back and forth for years on
Windows and Ubuntu. I actually liked Vista and Windows 7, but after this I
don't think I'll ever go back.