My Lubuntu Trusty upgrade experiences

Nio Wiklund nio.wiklund at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 14:44:49 UTC 2014


2014-04-18 16:38, Brian Murray skrev:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 04:27:38PM +0200, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> 2014-04-18 16:16, Dale Visser skrev:
>> ...
>>> My suggestion for the future is not to jump the starting gun with the
>>> announcement, i.e., please don't announce until people will be able to
>>> easily upgrade with update-manager, or at least give a warning in the
>>> announcement that some time may pass before update-manager will see the
>>> upgrade possibility.
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I think this is a general Ubuntu issue. Maybe Ubuntu-quality is a better
>> forum, so I add it to the recipient list.
> 
> The release announcement for Ubuntu did include a warning albeit a
> subtle one:
> 
> "Users of Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to
> 14.04 LTS via Update Manager shortly."
> 
> --
> Brian Murray
> 
You are right Brian,

Subtle warnings are nice, but unfortunately many of us (users) are too
eager to notice them. We bite the bait at once ;-)

Best regards
Nio



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