Troubles with Ubuntu 12.04. It cant just be me!

Never had such struggles before.

Ubuntu 12.04 was released a little while back. Being a long time user, I was eager to give the new version a spin, even though I have jumped over to OpenSUSE on a few systems. Much to my surprise, 12.04 is basically unusable for me. I have been trying to search for solutions, but to no avail. Is it just me?

Just to be clear, I have now done three clean installs of Ubuntu 12.04 on three separate systems, and these same issues occur.

Firstly, after booting up for the first time, I do a apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to get up-to-date with the latest patches. After a reboot, things start going down. Windows cant be manipulated or moved anymore, the launcher menu wont appear, The top menu bar stops responding. And I basically end up hitting ctrl+alt+t to open a new terminal window and do a sudo shutdown -r now.

I then tried switching to Gnome Shell, which is always one of first things I do, but woulndt you know it, the same thing happens there as well. I have no idea what is causing it and either I have been searching for the wrong terms, or I am the only one with these issues.

Is anyone else out there experiencing the same?

Tecardo

I don’t have such issues. It works fine for me, tried to use kde?
- Untouchab1e
  
  Haven’t tried KDE with Ubuntu 12.04, though if I wanted KDE I would go back to OpenSUSE. For now I’m using Linux Mint 13 with great success.
  
  Thanks for dropping a note though. Much appreciated
  - Tecardo
    
    Good luck with Mint 13. A nice gui :D
    - Untouchab1e
      
      Yea, Cinnamon is quite neat! Thank you though! :)

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