[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

[Raoul Snyman]

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> I agree - I have traditionally been a late adopter (only upgrading to
> Gutsy a week before the Hardy release for instance) and in my opinion
> the later in an upgrade cycle you upgrade the better Ubuntu is.
> 
> I upgraded to Hardy the week it was released and must say I was
> disappointed - and only when I moved on to the .1 release have I been
> happy again.

I have never had a problem. My server at home was running Dapper, and I did
the LTS to LTS direct upgrade without a single issue. My wife's laptop has
been upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy to Hardy without a single problem. My
desktop's upgrade process died half way for some arb reason, but with 2
commands I got it going again (albeit without a pretty GUI) and that was
all the "pain" I experienced.

In my not-so-humble opinion, all these woes you hear are a drop in the
ocean of upgrades.

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