i’ve been running 2010 spring on my laptop for about 2 weeks now. no glaring bugs at all in this release. gnome 2.30 and kde 4.4 seem noticeably speedier than previous versions. sound configuration this time around was not a pain at all. my saved wireless configurations are working much better.

initially when i logged into gnome for the first time i had the problem where window borders were missing. i’ve had that issue a couple times now and i always forget the cause and end up googling it again. it’s a sign that you need to turn off 3d desktop effects (compiz) and then reconfigure your video settings. configuring your video settings is something you typically choose to do at the end of a mandriva install. i chose to skip it…so my fault.

the audio player that i love, audacious, has dropped support for their last.fm scrobbling plugin 🙁 that’s a feature that i started to rely on…so now i’m using another audio player called qmmp. probably just until someone creates a new plugin for audacious.

there’s one weird problem happening that i’m still trying to figure out. i do a lot of sftp transfers back and forth between linux devices. ever since i upgraded to 2010.1…my transfers will randomly stall and then just drop altogether. it may just be a coincidence that this is happening right after i upgrade..not sure. i thought of maybe upgrading the openssh version on some of the target devices.

anyways i’ve been very happy with the 2010.1 release.

update 5/26/2011:
audacious has since restored scrobbling support in a later release.