[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

[James Milligan]

I wouldn't say that upgrading is unreliable in Windows - a clean  
install is always a better option, and technically safer, but  
upgrading is also quite reliable.

James

On 12 May 2009, at 11:53, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> 2009/5/12 doug livesey <biot023 at gmail.com>:
>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large  
>> seems to
>> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu  
>> rather
>> than to run the upgrade?
>
> What makes you think they do?
>
> Perhaps these people are used to Windows/Fedora/Red Hat where
> upgrading in the past has been notoriously unreliable?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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