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wow, statistics in action
I have an issue with fan control with my upgrade, apart from that it went well, so a little worse than jaunty, but still easier than osx and windows.
I've never seen the register being positive about anything new.
Is it normal that only in 16.56% Upgrade - worked flawlessly and in 13.83% Install - worked flawlessly? I'd say that's tragedy.
The entire article mentions only one bug, which is caused by proprietary drivers. Seems more like FUD to me. And yes I had a smooth upgrade to Karmic-amd64 with proprietary ATI drivers.
Ubuntu 8.10 broke Intel drivers, which are OSS. Furthermore Ubuntu ships with restricted drivers manager, which pragmatically installs properietary drivers where needed. Software vendors have the resposibility to their users to perform regression tests as part of their product. If Ubuntu doesn't want do do that, or do it better, then they shouln't bother to compete with other OSs that do. I'm saying this after 10+ ye…
I've never seen the register being positive about anything new.
But, look at the pool featured in the article -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305924 Is it normal that only in 16.56% Upgrade - worked flawlessly and in 13.83% Install - worked flawlessly? I'd say that's tragedy.
Never upgrade Ubuntu. Just reinstall. It's not that user-friendly.
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Ubuntu 8.10 broke Intel drivers, which are OSS. Furthermore Ubuntu ships with restricted drivers manager, which pragmatically installs properietary drivers where needed. Software vendors have the resposibility to their users to perform regression tests as part of their product. If Ubuntu doesn't want do do that, or do it better, then they shouln't bother to compete with other OSs that do. I'm saying this after 10+ ye…
I moved my home desktop back to Windows XP after Ubuntu 8.10 was released. It's the most stable desktop Operating System I know of. I never lost a file on it. I've never been unable to boot. I've never had hardware that wouldn't work on it. I have experienced quite a bit of Apple drama and figured it's just not worth the money. If I need to do any unixy stuff I have a button on my desktop that instantly launches an E…
YMMV
Never upgrade Ubuntu. Just reinstall. It's not that user-friendly.
Believe it or not, I've upgraded Ubuntu successfully several times through the GUI. Before Ubuntu 7.x this tended to fail spectacularly though. It's a very friendly process when it works, which admittedly seems contingent on the maturity of the release in question.