So, having had my Eee and put up with Xandros for over six months, I finally caved recently and installed Ubuntu Eee on it. This is a customised version of Ubuntu using the netbook UI and with a number of tweaks to things to install the OSD and other Eee-related packages by default.
Install was easy, running off my USB stick that I had set up following instructions on the Ubuntu Eee website – with the traditional live-USB style beforehand so I could test that things work.
So far things are good, and in installing it over the recovery partition too I’ve managed to gain some more space for things I want to install, which is certainly nice. The one issue I have encountered is that the wifi seems to be stuck in some sort of powersaving mode as it works in bursts, which is a touch annoying, but I haven’t looked at this properly yet.
The interface is intuitive and good, very similar to the default Xandros one in terms of the large icons on the home app that sits above the desktop and all in all I like the way it works.