I wouldn't say that upgrading is unreliable in Windows - a clean install is always a better option, and technically safer, but upgrading is also quite reliable.
James On 12 May 2009, at 11:53, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > 2009/5/12 doug livesey <biot...@gmail.com>: >> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large >> seems to >> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu >> rather >> than to run the upgrade? > > What makes you think they do? > > Perhaps these people are used to Windows/Fedora/Red Hat where > upgrading in the past has been notoriously unreliable? > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/