I miss option "Log in automaticly and then decrypt home folder". And if Gnome would provide possibility to encrypt any folder in home directory.

Ozbolt, it's not meaningful to setup a system to log in automatically and decrypt your home directory. This provides zero security, because this means the encryption password has to already be sitting there on the hard drive in plain text, which means the directory is not really encrypted.

It'd be like having a lock on your front door, but keeping the key in the lock so you never have to reach into your pocket to get it out. In this case, you don't really have a lock on the front door.

I think it's very cool.. I'm waiting for release..

Wow this looks so much better it is catching up to Apple OS X like Shuttleworth wants. Oh WAIT..... Snore

I like Ubuntu when it was one of the only Distros with

-Live CD
-Easier to Install than the most other Distros
-Stable system
-Not as many dependencies nightmares

And now 3 years later everyone else has caught up :( Wheres the innovation???

The only think that keeps me from being amazed from Ubuntu is the default font. I think if that default could get replaced by something that looked a little more professional, that would make the whole look and feel look more appealing.

Besides that, I think Ubuntu is the best Linux distro out there without a doubt.

I know this is alpha but after using Windows 7, Ubuntu has its work cut out for it. W7 can run on netbooks just fine (a guy at work has it on a Dell mini) and it is full of eye candy. Its stable and works well. Linux will always hold on to the geek crowd but if they want to attract more everyday users, they had best do some WOW'ing. And as far as OpenOffice, I think it needs a face lift. Forget about the functions (other then compatablity), just make it look beautiful. Heck, you will get the iWorks users if nothing else because thats all they seem to care about. Then work on making porting over spreadsheets from Excel and you might have a winner.

Just my opinions.

excellent i like it

Unfortunately I believe its safe to say that most people want the eye candy. Yeah its pretty fun sometimes and makes people go WOW, but the eye candy doesn't get the work done. Also I noticed from a few other people saying they would like to see a lot more themes with UBUNTU 8.10 cause thats what Im showing. They really dont care that its really stable and pretty quick, it kind of turned it into almost a power toy. Personally, from my view point I like UBUNTU 8.10. I also like the fact that it picks up most of my drivers without doing anything. So as far as EYE CANDY goes, why dont they just make it so when its installing its your choice to turn it off or on and just shred it with eye candy. Then maybe people will look at it more as being stable and quick. Just an idea.

Windows 7 is more resource hungry than Linux for sure. Most people aren't interested in a Vista 2 DRM experience. Apple and Linux are the leaders now. Ubuntu has the edge since it can run on anything.

Linux stability is not in question. Claiming more stability or speed as a new feature is going to be seen as an incremental improvement in a current strength.

Eye Candy is great, but complexity for the sake of complexity is not what anyone wants. Areas where Linux fails the average end user is useability touches. People aren't used to having to unmount flash drives to access them the next time they need to access them.

While we all know the reasons for this, people are lazy.

Don't expect much from a new Ubuntu version considering there's a new one every six months...I love how they make the prefs more relevant and intuitive (except when they moved the layout options from tab to button for keyboard settings back in Hardy...). The default font isn't bad because it's quite neutral (it's easy to change the font anyway). Only one thing about OpenOffice's appearance...should be prettier for one reason: touch screens are the future and OOo should be ready for this! If we ever wanna see FOSS such as OOo embedded in different devices, we should have a slick GUI...even if this means looking like the windeuce ribbon (instead of menus). OOo has the huge challenge of being MS Office's competitor, meaning usability, n00b friendliness and inter-operability are some of the most important feats.

OS X is shameful because Macheads don't seem to make their machines n00b-friendly (Safari doesn't support SSL nor does it have a phishing filter!!). iTunes and QuickTime are a lot of bloat, and I certainly don't trust Apple updates.

windeuce 7 will have one huge problem: it's still windeuce! Silly key combinations for typing accentuated characters, DLL problems, viruses, decentralized updates that break other programs, wizards keeping users stupid, etc.

Jaunty's feats are impressive. The third alpha is always the milestone for introducing new feats, so I'll certainly be looking forward to release.

My only criticism has already been stated many times. OOo needs a facelift. The functionality is there in spades, but it needs to look better and be easier to use for n00bs.

There is no doubt which is the better OS when comparing linux/windows. So why does windows trounce linux despite linux being free? The same thing is happening in the java programming world. It seems people would rather be locked into a 'new' proprietary .NET instead of a free, tried and tested java - even though .NET is merely a clone of java. In both instances it's because there is not much attention to clean, sharp design. Not necessarily eye-candy, but you all know what I mean. We lose the kids with good design and geek abilities to windows and retain all the pure-geek-types. While this helps with sheer strength, we need to bring in the design-types to clean things up already