At work I went back to 10.04 LTS today. Gnome 3, KDE 4 and Unity...they all make me mad. Sick of it.
I might go to Mint on my home PC, if not 10.04 LTS. If I have to upgrade in the future I will probably go with XFCE.
Edit: I put the latest Mint Linux on my main home pc and I really like it. It's based on Natty so I still can use the Ubuntu repo's.

Lost all networking and the internet is loaded with this boot issue for upgraders from Natty to Ocelot, where seeming in that phase the system is looking at the /run and /run/lock folders, when the upgrade process has failed to fully migrate these ** from the /var/run and /var/run/lock folders and create reverse sym links for these, so did a LiveCD, installed BOINC (did *not* attach any projects!), mounted the BOINC drive partition, added the path of the data_dir to the cc_config.xml, restarted BOINC and voilà, back to running the old client, saved 25 hours of crunching in progress and 25 more tasks that else would have gone into expiration, with a few upset that saw their PV jail inmates getting old.

Also dug out how to rescue this temp install and I must say, with a naked and really snappy BOINC at that, no bells, top efficiency. The answer is in the LiveCDPersistence document https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD/Persistence. Half way through the casper-rw USB setup (ext4 format), printed the 6 page instructions (Ocelot even recognized my Bluetooth wireless printer, though it was off off), and now got a carry-around stick to always be able to get back fast-forward to an operational state, should me fumblings in Linux cause another "nothing goes".

** Found instructions on the intertube how to do this migration manually, but for that first needed to get the LiveCD to run (something Billy G will eat his heart out over)

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P.S. I think to have heard the casper reference before, and now I know... It's the ghost in the [Linux] machine :)))))))))))))). By product, now I've got a truly hard to loose BOINC host... no added device in my the inflated WCG hosts count. ;P

P.P.S. Oh, and whilst, spending a 24 hours on W7-64 to figure this all out (whilst running DSFL+C4CW), incredible, what a slug even W7 feels to be when used to Linux (whilst writing this from the LiveCDPersistence instance).

P.P.P.S. Firefox 7 has now a resize-able writing area by default.... no more add-in required. Just grab the lower right angle and drag it down and further write to see your whole post, instead of that little window. Does not remember it though after preview.

Well, like they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Guess I will stay on 10.10 for now. Rock solid crunching.

Yes, I'm sure you're right here: the usual package updates should be enough. Like you, I'm still on the system installed from beta2. Plus the updates, of course. And I'm not experiencing any of the strange bugs that SekeRob mentioned above. All running smoothly here.

BTW, you can run lsb_release to see what system you've actually got:

marvey@helium:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 11.10
Release:        11.10
Codename:       oneiric

A week ago -- or thereabouts -- the value in the description line showed something like "Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)" but now that's gone...

Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone.

It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide.

http://ubuntu-tweak.com/