Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience
I've been using Linux since I found Feisty Ubuntu. My Feisty install was the simplest, most efficient install I've ever done for an OS. Naturally, I wanted to move to Gutsy.
First I decided to upgrade, since I'm out of desktop machine - no more room to transfer my stuff onto. So after many unsuccessful tries - probably 15 or 20 - I finally managed to get Gutsy to upgrade properly. When it finally did, I noticed that the manby changes I'd made following threads from here to get my Compiz-Fusion working got me into more trouble - XGL got turned on, and really bogged down the system. Even a screen refresh took 2 seconds. Every application slowed to a crawl. I then decided I was going to have to transfer my stuff to another HD and start fresh.
After 12 hours of file copying (for something that should have taken 30 minutes), I started a fresh install. Didn't take more than 30 minutes, but since I've had bugs in tring to figure out why certain software can't be installed. Compiz now works fine, although there are no settings or plugins screen. Certain things are now easier but I'm trying to find some functions... and it seems you really have to go through the menus every time.
Here is a suggestion - why not have an application mark down where all functions and apps of a version of Ubuntu are - for example where the functions for screen resolution is - and after an install, have it put a link where it once was. When you hit the old link, a macro would then show you, from the desktop, where all the new functions are.
I love Ubuntu, but so far, my first upgrade experience has been not-so-great.
Couzin2000
Sainte-Thérèse | Quebec | Canada
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