Radio Free Skaro loved it, but Neil Perryman hated it, for example.

As far as cliff-hanger resolutions go, personally, I’d prefer it if they would stop trying to top themselves for sheer and utter ridiculousness every season, but I have to say The Big Bang was a darn sight more satisfying than the “I do believe in fairies!” resolution in The Last of the Time Lords or Rassilon snapping his fingers in The End of Time.

Not that I think it was perfect, but I felt like I was having to overlook less to enjoy it than I was in the latter RTD years. And there wasn’t an episode that I didn’t enjoy. Even Victory of the Daleks, which was pretty weak, was still fun.

But to each his own, really. I liked it, but I don’t feel the need to try to make other people like it. There will be more Doctor Who is years to come that may be more to your taste. The best thing about this show is it always changes.

I found it to be — hands down — the weakest of the five modern-era DW series. No great episodes, few that were even particularly good. A lot of mediocre with far too many dashes of stupidity. And I’m a huge Steven Moffat mark — thought his episodes in the RTD era were all outstanding, and Coupling is one of my all-time favourite shows. But this was like the fourth series of Coupling: one big disappointment after another. I thought the the writing was lazy (cheap escapes from predicaments, lame dialogue) and in need of an editor-slash-BS caller. Even when he came up with a cool idea (e.g. the Pandorica), he managed to make it completely inconsequential except as a minor plot device. I watched almost all of the Christopher Eccleston and early David Tennant episodes again this year, so it’s not misty water-coloured memories to blame. But the cast was fine. Alex Kingston’s return was particularly welcome.

Ubuntu’s main goal these days seems to be to iterate quickly on usability issues. They’ve hired designers and user experience people and Mark Shuttleworth is stepping in personally to work on this stuff. We’re starting to see the results of that.

Drastic usability changes are going to be the hallmark of Ubuntu releases for a while yet. I understand the frustration and I’m not saying every change is great. Fortunately, this is free software. I’m sure there will be derivative distributions (eg. Linux Mint) which turn their back on a lot of these changes.

As for your boot problems, I’d suggest talking to the friendly people on Ubuntu forums

I have no use for WMA files.