Upgradephobia!

[bqz69]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:50:11 am David McNally wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> It's the first time that I'm upgrading on this computer, and I'm now a bit
> hesitant about upgrading.
>
> On the computer I had before this (which wasn't a very good machine), I
> upgraded once, and lost all of the graphics effects because the graphics
> driver was lost. The next time, I lost several programs, and could not
> figure out why. However, at that time, I was still using windows a lot, so
> it wasn't that important that Ubuntu was having problems.
>
> My Ubuntu computer now is currently the only computer that I have (at least
> I'm not using windows anymore!), so I'm a bit more nervous, considering
> I've never had a successful upgrade.
>
> Also, when I was reading the release notes for 9.10, I noticed that ext4
> and GRUB 2 won't be installed on an upgraded computer - only a fresh
> install. Would there be any way of creating a fresh install, but with all
> of my programs and files (and I do mean EVERYTHING: Virtualbox VMs, Wine
> programs, game saves, Compiz settings, etc), while still having ext4 and
> GRUB 2?
>
> Thanks in advance.

I have tried to upgrade a couple of ubuntus, and it never worked out well for 
me, so until further, i newinstall