I guess I was not really clear enough ...
The machine was very slow when I installed 11.04 (clean install) ... At the
time I installed it, the website showed it as the latest version, which I
downloaded to a cd and installed it a couple of days later .. once it was
installed, and started through the typical "update" process, it told me that
11.10 was available if I wanted to install it. By the way, as I was
installing the 11.04, and preparing to boot, I got a message that my machine
was not compatible with Unity 3D and it switched to Unity 2D on it's own ...
It did not tell me why there was a compatibility issue.
When I refer to "slow" that is in comparison to the previous operating
system that was on this machine, not in the difference between 11.04 and
11.10 .. I did not see any notable errors during the install process of
either .. but I did notice the slowness immediately upon installation of
11.04 ....
I must say, just like with Microsoft, it is quite frustrating to download a
brand new installation package from a vendor, only to find that it
immediately needs a quantity of updates almost as large as the original
download. My question to any vendor that offers software via download, "Why
can't the programmers create an install package that already has the latest
updates built in it?" I can understand software that is provided on CD not
being able to be current, but downloaded software?