Ubuntu 10.4 (Lynx Lucid) impressions!

[Alby_da_Wolf]

I installed Kubuntu 10.04.
It looks more stable than the previous I used, 9.04, but HW detection and configuration required some tweaks, while 9.04 did everything automatically, except copying in a directory the scanner firmware, but only for copyright reasons.
While the previous versions were more permissive about some flaws Partition Manager and Windows 2000 and XP made in the partitioning, 10.04 refused it, but this was good, as while Partition Manager 2007 Rescue Disk did a disaster when I tried to delete a duplicate of a partition, deleting them all, using System Rescue CD, ad testdisk in particular, I was able to recover the correct partitioning, without errors and without losing any data. The previous attempt with a newer version of Partition Manager proposed a horrible mix between the correct partitioning and the previous ones I tried and deleted when I built the PC before deciding the final one.
So thanks to 10.04 I removed a possible source of data losses.
Other things, upgrading from 9.04, through 9.10, configured audio not well, a clean install solved it.
I must still fix mtink (statur monitor for printers), in 9.04 I managed to make it work as normal user, now it still requires sudo, I added lp group to mine, like I did in 9.04, but perhaps it needs a reboot or a reinstall...
Overall a very good distro, anyway, and a lot more stable than 9.04 when launching too many programs free RAM becomes low.
RAM used by the system and GUI alone didn't grow excessively from 9.04, and it's still comparable to Windows XP.
Flash video support looks better.
Cosmetics apart, the interface had minor changes and remained very familiar, now that I'm used to KDE's previous major changes.
Dolphin is still quite bugged, although less than before, I still prefer to use Konqueror as file manager, but I prefer Firefox to Konqueror as browser.