Anyone tried the new Ubuntu release?

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I've recently deployed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS at work. I didn't see any big changes like many originally thought I hear they are still waiting on the Xorg replacement xMir which supposedly will speed up and save more system resources over Xorg. The head Ubuntu developers at Canonical are usually a bit more conservative when coming out with an LTS releases since they are long term 5yrs. With the new 14.04 I've currently only deployed the Server version. So I cannot comment on standard desktop changes. I use Elementary OS (a Ubuntu derivative) for my desktop and really enjoy it.

I have 14.04 on my desktop and on my 8 year old acer 4670, all seems pretty good, no major cliches. Well there was, I upgraded the lazy way and the from 13.04 and broke it, reinstalled from disk and no issues. Printers, wireless, networking all good. Nothing on the surface has changed, I don't go looking under the hood too much so no comment there.

Cheers for responses.

I'm running 12.04 on a 5 year old ACER laptop, but I've tinkered with and broke a couple of things so I'm looking for a fresh install. Will the newer version run quicker on older hardware?

Hmm, I upgraded my 12.04 anyway.

I'm slightly annoyed that I have to jump through hoops to get my window buttons over on the right and change the colour of my launcher, but everything seems to run a little quicker than it did before. Crusty old laptop is running cooler too.

It even correctly mounts my ancient Moto Xoom as a USB device OUT OF THE BOX. This is more than just a novelty - this is the first time my particular Droid has ever worked with ANY Linux distro I've tried.

That's a result.

I'm running it on my desktop at the moment and I'm quite impressed with the speed and general 'polish'. Only snag is it didn't recognise my Windows 8.1 partition so won't' dual boot (any solutions to this?). Both operating systems are of importance to me, especially as I own a Surface RT tablet!

It's perhaps the most stable and usable Ubuntu to use the Unity interface, I did try the GNOME 3 version but found it to have all sorts of strange bugs. Worst one was that using the Spotify web player crashed the X server.