Running upgrades

[LaRoza]

For those of you who may have already upgraded, what can I expect?

I have never had anything other than a stable install, even with beta software. Now I am upgrading to Intrepid and am running lots of non standard software and even Opera beta.

Am I about to witness finally what everyone seems to complain about?

[ronacc]

expect breakage disaster and frustration why else would you run an alpha ? (and not even an alpha yet) we are all volunteers here and you were warned, join the fun !

[plun]

Well, what to expect ? .... :)

- a major disaster without backups and /home on a separate partition.

- You are forced to learn the terminal

- learn package management and apt/aptitude

- learning manual procedures without any GUI function


- Users with 3D drivers will hate a dev version without knowledge
howto manually handle a driver :) the nVidia challenge...:)


But /home on a separate partition and it takes 15 minutes to
be "back on track" after a total breakage.

:)


EDIT forgot

- Your favorite app can be broken you are forced to find a substitute :^o

[23meg]

There's no point in running Intrepid at this point, unless you're a toolchain hacker, or want to gain experience in reverting massive breakage.

[ShodanjoDM]

Am I about to witness finally what everyone seems to complain about?

<DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

[LaRoza]

Well, what to expect ? .... :)

- a major disaster without backups and /home on a separate partition.

- You are forced to learn the terminal

- learn package management and apt/aptitude

- learning manual procedures without any GUI function


That isn't a disaster. I have backups of everything. I am very familiar with the terminal (yes, X didn't start which is what I expected.) and I didn't feel at all hampered by the lack of a GUI (I use the terminal mostly anyway).

I always use command line package managers so that didn't change.

Luckily, my best apps (except Opera) are CLI, so it didn't matter.

There's no point in running Intrepid at this point, unless you're a toolchain hacker, or want to gain experience in reverting massive breakage.

Yes, I wanted to have fun with the extreme unstableness.

<DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

<Jawa>Natigee! Askaba, shonabar!</Jawa>

[Gina]

I'll continue to update Hardy but I guess the time to start testing Intrepid is with the first Alpha release.

[madmetal]

<DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

Come to the dark side we have cookies and updates daily!

[disturbedite]

if you're a good problem solver, then i think you will find it a fun experience. (most of the time). ;)