11.04
Apparently there are some major problems with the new Ubuntu release. Looking at the Slashdot thread relating to The Register Article in which half the posts are people with problems, and the other half are saying WorksForMe(tm). (so predictable).
“Only around 10 per cent of those upgrading or installing reported a completely flawless experience.”
Wow a 10% success rate! Were these not the same idiots that were taking pot-shots at the Windows 7 upgrade process as it may take a while and occasionally has problems? Also amusingly isn’t there a chance that if you ugrade to OSX 10.6 and use a guest account it may wipe the admin account?
Karma Definition:
the force produced by a person’s actions in one of their lives which influences what happens to them in their future lives.
I love when things are this poetic.
The Moral of the Story
DON’T DO AN IN PLACE UPGRADE! DO A CLEAN INSTALL! EVERY TIME!!!
I’ve not done an in place upgrade of *anything* since Windows 98. It never goes well and the only ‘benifit’ is that it lets you keep all the cruft and a lot of the problems that existed previously. Wipe the whole lot* and start again. And pay attention to that story of people in glass houses.
* Thankfully when you do a clean install of Windows 7 it puts the old contents of c:/ in c:/Windows.Old/ so you can recover what you want and delete the rest.
WOW! 3 (THREE!!) Posts in ONE day??
Kerberos, we (i) LIEK u! <3
Actually, the original is here.
ATTN: Kerberos, we need you over at SJVN! It’s getting too l00ntastic, his latest is “5 Ways Ubuntu 9.10 is Better than Windows 7″ !!! The zealots have gone way beyond delusional.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/15035/5_reasons_why_ubuntu_9_10_is_better_than_windows_7
Kerberos is delivering an early christmas this year!
LH is dead long live Kerberos
Only the inexperienced do upgrade installations rather than backing up data and reinstalling.
That being said, I can understand why the linux weenies are all about the dist-upgrade dance. When your OS is obsolete every 6 months, what choice do you have? Doing a clean install and getting back up and running takes many hours over a few days to get everything just right again.
Same deal with Windows, save that the time frame moves from months to YEARS. Spending many hours over a few days to get Windows the way that you like it once every 4-5 years is hardly arduous – assuming that you’re not the sort of person who just buys a new PC every 4 years and donates the old one to a pentium-inflicted relative.
Of course the freetards then drag out the bit rot argument. You know the one: Windows performance degrades and you have to reinstall every 6-months/1-year/etc to get your performance back.
Hello? 1998 called and they want their “Top 10 Reasons Why Windows 98 Sucks” list back.
I’ve not felt the need to reinstall an OS for performance or cruft-buildup reasons since 2001 – when I dumped 98. I’ve only seen performance degradation on systems where users are installing spyware infested internet games and have so many free toolbars running in IE that they can’t even read the damn web pages any longer. Clean out the crapware and things improve.
That example is a user education issue, not an OS flaw.