Xubuntu 20.04 disaster

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:23:00AM +0000, Peter Flynn wrote:
> On 20/11/2020 09:20, Tom H wrote:
> > 3) Newbies are more likely to install than to upgrade.
> 
> Oldies always install, never upgrade :-)
> 
Not true! :-)

I think I took my desktop system from somewhere around 10.04 to 18.04
before doing a re-install.  Even then I only re-installed because I
had added a new NVME disk and it was easier to make a new installation
on the new disk and then copy stuff across as needed. It was quite an
exercise in boot reconfiguration because the new NVME disk wasn't seen
by the BIOS, otherwise I would probably have continued upgrading.

The big advantage of upgrading is that one doesn't have to remember
all the extra packages one has installed, plus any OS customisation.
Of course that's also the disadvantage, you get to keep all that stuff
you added that you no longer need! :-)

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Chris Green