On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > I think that Ubuntu has jumped the shark. I've tried Ubuntu 11.04 in VirtualBox. It took a LONG time to install, and it > felt slow and clunky. I'd be curious to hear what hardware this was on. I just installed it in 1GB RAM VirtualBox VM on my 2-year old Macbook Pro and it took 1:05 to get to the install start screen, and from then to getting signed in for the first time was just over 15 minutes. I consider that to be fairly acceptable considering the age of my hardware and the relative pokey nature of the 5400 RPM hard drive.