Good Idea for new users

[Leonard Chatagnier]

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net


--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:


> 
> > I know it's supported.  Am just giving my
> experience and stating what
> > worked for me.  I've done both but not a direct
> upgrade from an older
> > version in quite some time.  YMMV, but I think I
> said that on one or
> > the related posts. I still think Karl's advice is not
> the best as far
> > as Ubuntu goes, YMMV.
> 
> I agree that Karl's idea is not one of the best. But I'm
> also more than
> a little disheartened by your apparent acceptance that the
> upgrade
> process is one doomed to failure.

Now you are putting words in my mouth that I didn't say. I only said that in my experience that I had less trouble with a fresh install and I see where many people mention problems with an upgrade from an older version.
I'm sure there are some issues with a fresh install, after all, it's linux.

> I rely on it working, and as such would like people who
> find bugs in it
> to report them.
> 
Who knows, I may have but probably not, because I find bug reports difficult to do.
Since it's been since Hardy that I've upgraded I certainly don't remember the issues now. I did file a report on the Karmic ECC thingy which was extremely haphazardous even with the automated bug reporting in KDE4.  That process could be improved IMHO.  I no longer have that issue with an up-to-date system and have unsubscribed to it. BTW, I don't ever plan to upgrade again, I'm just going to delete and old linux partitione and do a fresh install on it.  Why, because it's my preference and I find it less problematic.  Hoping we can drop this now; it's getting a little OT.
> 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net