So little time and so many new things...

Hello everyone,

I'm really sorry for not being able to post more here, specially now that I finally upgraded Ubuntu to 9.04 (from 8.04) - I'm still not perfectly happy with it as I was also affected with performance regression due to changes in Xorg 1.5 and 1.6, and on the other hand the new PulseAudio is really awesome and there lots of things that work a lot better under 9.04. Well actually only my WoW plays with about 20% less performance ...

Just a short note for those of you strugleing with new Ubuntu release and some Wine performance:

• make sure you setup PulseAudio and set it also in WoW (dont use Hardware Audio checkbox)
  
• I had some profile issues, so I created new user and then migrated Apps to that user - but my profile was really old and full of junk - there's also Janitor Option now - so you should check that out
• I'm using Nvidia 173 driver and not the 180 (173 still gives me better performance)
• If you have any compiz/desktop issues after upgrade, I would strongly suggest clearing up the profile (that's the "/home/username" folder) - creating a new profiles seems the easiest transition, but dont do it, if it's not really necessery

The rest was pretty much a great upgrade (from 8.04 to 8.10 then 9.04) the whole process took me about a day with all the tweaking and cleaning up... but I do install a lot of apps and try out a lot of other stuff, so it should be much faster then what I did. I'm glad to say that the majority of applications are working just as good as before or better and I haven't found a thing that wouldn't yet!

Good luck with upgrades!