Upgrade to 17.04 gnome-flashback issue

[Colin Law]

On 29 October 2017 at 16:23, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 October 2017 at 16:48, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 29 October 2017 at 15:38, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Why update the current supported LTS release to an obsolete unsupported release?
>>
>> 17.04 is actually supported till Jan 2018 [1]
>
> I defer.
>
> /Nearly/ obsolete. :-)
>
>
>> It is not necessary to have a separate home partition to re-install
>> without overwriting /home. On the what to do dialog when installing,
>> select Something Else, select the existing '/' partition and tell it
>> to use it as '/' and *not* to reformat. Then it will install the new
>> OS there but leave /home as it is.  Needless to say you should back
>> everything important up before doing that.
>
> True. I've tried it. It's scary but it works.
>
> But you can't dual-boot that way.

True, if you want the same home folder in both boots.
Actually not entirely true, you could link /home in one boot to /home
in the other.

Colin