As you bethink most vividly, my experience with the latest Ubuntu was not stellar. In fact, it was anti-stellar. On a machine with generic hardware, it worked fine but with lots of regressions, and on a high-end box with the Nvidia graphics card, it was a fiasco. Oh, some people might complain my high-end box is not really high-end. Perhaps. That does not mean I will not tenaciously continue using the term.

So now, this situation begs the question. If Ubuntu is retarded, will its child be retarded, too? In other words, will Linux Mint Nadia, the latest release based on Quantal Quackery, be able to escape the same problems present in its parent? And most importantly, will be able to beat the perfect score I granted Maya this spring?