I don't fiddle with my computer terribly much these days- I seem to have a life now!
After a few years of running Ubuntu and the stock Gnome desktop I thought it was time to try something a little new. I've installed Cairo-dock and removed the gnome-panels. Cairo is a brilliant dock program with tons of applets and easy to install program short-cuts so that you can easily configure it just the way you like it. Surprisingly, all the applets are much faster than their gnome equivalents.
I've also removed a few surplus desktop short-cuts and changed the wallpaper.
A change is as good as a holiday they say, although I don't feel like I've had a holiday 🙂
New Life Narrabri 
Looks like a good program. I was very impressed at Ubuntu. You had spoken about it some time ago and I downloaded it for my small laptop which came with Windows. Windows crashed during a defrag and refused to start again, but Ubuntu pulled through and booted up immediately.
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Ubuntu's great. There are a couple of dock programs that give it that Mac-style dock. I tried docky but it seemed to slow my system right down.Ubuntu seems to be heading towards a system thy call unity which is already the standard on the version for netbooks. It gives a dock down the side of the screen which is a pretty good arrangement for those small screens where vertical space is at a premium. They are upgrading it and it will become the standard on all Ubuntu systems from April.
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Sounds worth a try. I'll look for it.
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