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I have had Luna as my main OS on a cheap netbook for a couple of months. I like it a lot. The (G)UI is clean and streamlined. I much prefer it to Ubuntu Unity. It's similar to OSX in many ways, which is not a bad thing.

And it's much faster and smoother than Win 8 on the netbook.

+1

How's the battery backup?

Low battery time(even after using laptop-tools) is the thing I hate about ubuntu(and linux) on laptop.

Windows 8 is amazingly energy efficient.

I don't know, that netbook was sold with WindowsXP and now the battery barely works.

That looks amazingly close to Unity - did he change the layout to move the dock to the left of the screen?

The performance is amazing. :)

Yes, by default the dock is at the bottom but with dconf-editor you can move it in the other edges

If you don't have Elementary Tweaks installed, you should get it pronto from the PPA: https://launchpad.net/~versable/+archive/elementary-update

Exposes a lot of settings, including dock positioning, in a sensible manner.

very interesting elementaryupdate, thanks

ElementaryOS Luna Test Drive