On 18 April 2012 16:51, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 April 2012 16:44, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 18 April 2012 16:07, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> > >> I've just put 12.04 on my Samsung N150 netbook. Previously, I've had to > >> do various tweaks to get things fully working, but with 12.04, > everything > >> worked out of the box. Fantastic. > >> > >> The only problem was starting off with the 'upgrade' option on the Live > CD > >> installer. This was a miserable failure in several ways including a > >> non-working installation of the Ubuntu Software Centre. I don't want > to go > >> into all the details, but I've never yet got 'Upgrade', either online or > >> from a live CD to work properly. It was quicker and easier to > re-install. > >> > > > > In a good 15 years of using Linux, I've never had an upgrade in place > work > > properly. It would be far more reliable for an image install to offer to > > back up your data, create a clean install and restore. > > I have never had one fail (not 15 years admittedly but a number of > upgrades). I always purge any PPAs I am using first. > > Also remember that if you install over an existing one but tell it not > to format the partition then it will leave the home directory in place > so effectively doing what you are asking. > > Of course with a Beta version (which is the case for the OP) then > nothing is guaranteed. > > Except it doesn't - some of the problems seem to be traceable to user preferences - Thunderbird has *always* been a problem for example. I've got backup, clean install and restore down to a fine art now, and as always, Your Mileage May Vary, and I actually do the same for Windows and Mac OS as well so I'm probably being cautious, but I would, especially with what is going to change with 12.04 and because it's an LTS release I would be very wary of doing an upgrade.
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