I spent hours upgrading from 10.10 and witnessed instant disappointment. The Desktop is rubbish compared to 10.10 which is Gnome, I believe. It was a simple thing, even for me, to place apps in the top toolbar in 10.10. I had gmail, Google Docs and the Calendar all perched there. Now 11.04 just makes another copy of the running program. I'm afraid it will be back to 10.10 unless I can get the Gnome Desktop running. I read somewhere that the next version of Mint should replace UBUNTU, which I have faithfully tried to get to work. No threat to Microsoft; I think!