[ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

[Colin Law]

On 8 November 2011 10:16, Norman Silverstone <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> I am using 11.04 with, what I assume to be, the original Gnome desktop.
> My computer is not particularly sophisticated being about 5 years old
> and I would like to know whether I am likely to encounter a whole lot of
> new problems to solve should I decide to upgrade. I have tried to follow
> comments made by list members and am rather confused and elderly. I have
> been using Ubuntu since the first release and any real help would be
> much appreciated.

If you are happy with what you have and it does all you need it to
then there is little argument for upgrading, especially as the new
Unity interface still seems a little rough around the edges.  You
might be better to hang on until 12.04 by which time, hopefully, most
of the issues should have been sorted out.

Another alternative to trying the live CD as others have suggested is
to install 11.10 initially on a separate partition on your disk (10GB
is plenty) then you will have the option when booting to run the new
one or the old one, this would allow you to try 11.04 without having
to wait for the CD all the time.  Then if you decide you like it you
can upgrade your main system.  Before doing anything like this make
sure you have all your important stuff backed up of course.

Colin


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