I think is a bad habit inherited from Windows. I've seen this kind of users asking "I've reinstalled it 20 times and still doesn't works. Why?"
Just an opinion Lailah El dom, 01-07-2012 a las 05:29 -0700, Adam Tauno Williams escribió: > > Matthew Barnes <mbar...@redhat.com> wrote: > >I'm still a little confused as to why so many users seem to feel the > >need to backup and restore their personal data just to upgrade their > >operating system in place. Backing up of course is a prudent safety > >measure, but if the upgrade goes smoothly there should be no need to > >restore the backup. > >Are there actually distro installers that don't allow you to upgrade > >without nuking your home directory, or do some installers not make that > >option clear enough, or am I just misunderstanding the problem? > > > AFAIK all mainstream distros do non-destructive in-place upgrades. I've > upgraded openSUSE from 11.0 to present (12.1) without restoring anything. > > > I think this stems from a clinging to the obsolete practice of periodic > re-install. I have no idea why users do this but it is very prevalent amoung > the ones I talk to; they reinstall all the time. > > > >There does seem to be a large concentration of Ubuntu users reporting > >these kinds of problems, but that might just be a statistical anomaly > >rather than something Ubuntu is doing wrong. > > > I don't believe it is anomalous; it jives perfectly with my first-hand > experience. Ubuntu users in-the-main inherit the worst practices of 1990s > era PC users. It is very frustrating to try to help them even in person - > turn your back for a few minutes and the are reinstalling to see if that will > magickally fix thier problem (whatever that is).
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