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My Ubuntu 10.10 upgrade double-whammy

Posted by DeviceGuru on · 2 comments
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Having already previewed the Ubuntu 10.10 beta with good results on more than one system, I felt safe upgrading my primary desktop system from v10.04 to v10.10 once the new version went gold. To my astonishment, neither my keyboard, mouse, nor display were functioning after the upgrade.

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Comments (2)

Why was he surprised?

You cannot expect to deliver proper quality if what you do is reassemble from Experimental every six months. It is so blindingly obvious, why do people continue to do the same thing all the time while expecting a different result?
For me, it's usually been less work to just reinstall than to upgrade, and you don't have to worry about losing anything when you reformat the partition. Even the routinely criticized Slackware is easy to install.

The last time I relied on an upgraded distro, I didn't find out about the things that didn't upgrade properly until well after the fact. There's not a good reason to go through that.

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