Nvidia graphics cards and Unity
I just installed 11.04 today from scratch, posting this from it now. I had a few issues, the biggest was that I couldn't get unity to run, it kept loading into gnome. After much digging I found a forum post where an Ubuntu developer explained that they were blacklisting most nvidia graphics cards as the drivers have the potential to ruin a users experience and then provided the workaround. Which was simply adding UNITY_FORCE_START=1 to /etc/environment. It is working great on my laptop now, but I am inclined to agree with the author, if an average user, and a massive amount of users have nvidia cards, tries to install/update this version they are in for a whirl wind forum ride to get everything working. And why would ubuntu even think blacklisting the most popular add-in graphics card was a good idea??? Even if the drivers were bad on certain cards I would prefer to give a few nvidia users a bad experience instead all nvidia users no experience at all. Just my .02
