sound control on 18.04

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:28 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yup. I think I will have to switch my home machines, too.
>
> Is there any way to convert an Ubuntu 16.04 install into one of
> Xubuntu 16.04, so I don't get GNOME when I upgrade it?
>
Can't help you there - I only did a release upgrade once and that was
enough.  Now I always install cold from the distro DVD.  Faster and
cleaner.

For each of 16.04 and 18.04, I bought a new 240+GB SSD, installed it
in as the boot disk and dropped the OS on that drive.  It's fast, and
easily replaced.  And I have a built-in backup should I need for some
reason to go back to 16.04.  Probably - see below.

However, I have /home on another drive, and that has its fun when a
new release doesn't like my old configuration.  I forgot about that
(happened with 14.04->16.04), so I had to battle with it again this
time briefly.   Hopefully I'll remember next time and get it right, up
front.

HTH.
MR

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