On 18 April 2012 17:11, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 18 April 2012 16:51, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> On 18 April 2012 16:44, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > [snip] >> > 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
What, you mean an install in place without formatting /home corrupts /home? I hope you have put a bug report in for that as it is extremely serious. Colin > - 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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
