I don't know if anybody was on the Ubuntu Forums on the day Fesity was released but it was crazy. Every time you refreshed the page there would be 5 more posts. This was a big release and everybody wanted it!

I'll start with my specs so that people can see what I was working with:

2.66 Core 2 Duo
2GB DDR2 Ram
256Mb Nvidia Geforce 7300
320GB Serial ATA II 7200Rpm
DVD+/-RW
19" Dell bog standard LCD

I took the risk and began downloading it before it was officially announced. The timestamp was two days old but I trusted it was the final release. It was :D. As soon as the download completed I burned the ISO with K3B (which by the way is the most easy-to-use tool in the world!) and i was ready to go! I wanted to do a fresh install because... well there was nothing too important on my linux partition and I like fresh installs. Feels bigger that way.

So I popped in the disk and rebooted. On the betas something weird would happen to my screen when I booted off the disk which was a bit worrying but the final release fixed that. I was up and on the desktop in about 2 minutes. I'm not a huge fan of the Ubuntu colour scheme but it looked quite nice in Feisty. Little was changed. I didn't play around too much on the desktop, just went straight to install.

The install went so smoothly and the new "import from windows" section works without a hitch. I reformatted my Edgy partition and began the install without a hitch. Within about half an hour it was finished installing and asked could it reboot. GRUB was installed on my MBR again and I asked it to boot to Fesity. From selection of OS on GRUB to login window took 39 seconds on my system which is slightly up from Edgy. Woo!

What I really like about Feisty is that it automatically mounted my windows partition so i didn't have to do that manually. Also when I asked to play some MP3s from my windows partition Feisty asked could it install the proprietary codecs. No hassle any more folks! Another great feature of Feisty is the "Restricted Drivers" section. It saw my GPU and new exactly what it was but didn't enable it by default, which I think is fair enough in a free world :). I asked for it to be installed and it did so without hassle. There was no NVidia splash when I logged out so I wasn't sure if it had worked properly but a quick check in the terminal showed that it did.

Then came the new installs! I opened up Synaptic because it's my favorite package manager. First thing I did was enable all repositories. As usual this was very straight forward in Synaptic. I chose for kubuntu to install and it selected all the necassary files. I searched for Beryl and it was in the Universe Repo which was vey cool. I selected that too and left it to download... No problems!
About an hour later everything was downloaded and installed and I had a fancy 3D desktop with Gnome and KDE.

All in all I think this is the cleanest Ubuntu distrobution yet and still a few months ahead of all the other distos out there. It is so simple and idiot proof now. Everything works out of the box. Eye-candy and all. OK it would be nice if my GPU would just work but hey what's a few extra mouse clicks? I have been using it solidly for a week and have had no truble at all. I think Linux has finally grown up :D