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Well then, I didn't know that about dist-upgrade. But either way, I have used the graphical update tool's "A new version of Ubuntu is available", and it always
by vintermann 11y ago
Well then, I didn't know that about dist-upgrade. But either way, I have used the graphical update tool's "A new version of Ubuntu is available", and it always did a proper upgrade. I assumed the Kubuntu version would do the same (and indeed, it certainly tried).
Yup, a GTX 980 Ti. Surely for the installer nomodeset is a sensible default - once the Nvidia drivers are installed it doesn't matter, but it's tricky to get the drivers without a functioning display.
I'm not actually looking for something for my grandma, of course. And I can usually recover my system when stuff like this happens, as long as I have a different online connection and a few hours to spare. I just hate doing it.
- vetinari 11y ago> I'm not actually looking for something for my grandma, of course. And I can usually recover my system when stuff like this happens, as long as I have a different online connection and a few hours to spare. I just hate doing it. Well, me too. I have an HTPC (2009-ish box with Atom and Nvidia ION) running minimal Ubuntu installation, and that means that updates are always exciting (i.e. there is X server, but no display manager, no desktop environment and no gnome/kde/whatever config tools, the only X client is kodi run as an upstart service). Boy, how I hate upgrading that... Usually only after kodi stops supporting the version I'm running. Last time (12.04->14.04) the problem was that the kernel in 14.04.2 installer was too new for the nvidia driver (304) in the repo. Next upgrade (hopefully no sooner than next year) I'm going to learn at least how to change upstart service into systemd service. On the other hand, the Ubuntu machine that my parents use (literally definition of grandma and grandpa :) ) updates smoothly and it really is just pressing the button.