Best way to install Gutsy?

[.exe]

Hey, I'm just wondering what the better method is for installing Gutsy, or other distros in general - updating a previous version or clean install? Usually I go for clean install to trim the fat from my last install, but after a couple years of doing it that way, its starting to get tedious.

[Schroeder]

I was just wondering the same thing...I would hate to loose all my settings (fonts etc.) on a clean install. Is there any way to preserve those? Just copying over the home directory?

[gilgongo]

I have a "rule of two" - upgrade two, then clean install the third update. That way, not too much cruft builds up - and I get to test my backup :-)

Gutsy will be a clean install for me. Note also that the last two upgrades went fine though.

[sancho panza]

I havent been using ubuntu for less than a year, so cant comment on the "tediousness" part. So if you find it tedious, I agree with gilgongo. I have a seperate /home and /usr/local partition, so I dont lose any programs i install outside of the regular ones and my personal settings when i do clean install. And it takes only as long as an upgrade.

[rturner]

I had a couple of apps installed that caused trouble with the upgrade, so I just clean installed. Copied my home directory to a network drive and I have google browser sync. It wasn't more than a couple hours later that I had all my "stuff" working again.