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This is such a "two years ago" argument. My upgrade to Karmic was much easier than Hardy or Jaunty (I didn't try out Intrepid). Heck, it was even better than

• ComputerGuru 17y ago
  But that's just the point! This was your pleasant experience. I'm happy for you, really am. But not everyone else was as lucky, and therein lies the problem for the newcomers! Hope you get what I'm trying to say, that it's the under-appreciated stuff that knocks out one guy out of 10 that's the source of all the commotion here.. except, with good reason.
  • wildjim 17y ago
    But that's also the experience of a certain percentage upgrading from Windows 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> Blah. The rule for Windows used to be "always reinstall, never upgrade, it never works 100%"; TBH, I'd have trouble believing better than 75% real success-rate. The perfect upgrade is impossible (i.e across all user's machines); my experience has been only Debian and Gentoo come anywhere near close to painless, but to be fair, that's probably mostly because I'm constantly doing micro-upgrades on these dist's (Deb "testing" track) and there are still some app's or packages that haven't been tested into oblivion by the time I get to them, and so require me to troubleshoot and fix on occasion. If you care about stability more than being near upstream's head, you have to choose an LTS dist, and you have to vett every single upgrade the Vendor/Maintainer wants to apply. If not, accept that there's a percentage risk which you have little control over.