Upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 23 August 2014 16:19, Douglas Pollard <dougpol2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Colin, I have this explanation and question, first I have Navagartix on a
> net book I use on my sailboat for navigating. I also put it on my desktop in
> order to get accustomed to it and I would like to go back th Ubuntu on my
> desktop machine. Do you think I could save the home file and using'/' .not
> format and have Ubuntu with my home folder in it. I have never tried
> anything like this before as I have kept Ubuntu on my machine all along
> until recently.

I see that navagatrix (I assume you meant that rather than navagartix)
is Ubuntu based so it is worth giving it a go.  Provided you have
backed up everything important then the worst that can happen is that
you have a problem and have to re-install from scratch.

Colin