[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
> Forgot to add: and in the end this might mean that it "worked" in Debian
> because people mostly had a clue and, even if they didn't follow the
> release notes managed to sanely upgrade. At least it was expected that
> they wouldn't let important packages be removed, like the article writer
> did.
> 
> The article writer had no clue and should have followed the
> instructions, as she hopefully would have done when upgrading Windows or
> MacOS. 

The author claimed it took 3 hours to install Ubuntu - it took me 6 hours to
upgrade Win98 to XP on my wife's machine recently.  And at that, it ended
up being a fresh install.  20 minutes last time I did a full Ubuntu
install.
-- 
derek