Very true.. My prob was on my end alone, I find that disabling all the eye-candy (which I have no desire for) even in Linux... everything runs like a charm.
It's tough to run as many apps at the same time as I do, with eye-candy running in the background without enough ram to support it
I'm the type who does not care how pretty or cool a window looks... but rather, just how many I can run at one time
But, by the time everybody fixes all the bugs and figures this stuff out.... there will be 3d hologram projecting pc's on the shelves