View Poll Results: What is your Quantal Quetzal install/upgrade experience ?

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  • Upgrade - worked flawlessly

    16 11.68%
  • Upgrade - worked but had a few things to fix, nothing serious though

    19 13.87%
  • Upgrade - had many problems that I've not been able to solve

    16 11.68%
  • Install - worked flawlessly

    38 27.74%
  • Install - worked but had a few things to fix, nothing serious though

    22 16.06%
  • Install - had many problems that I have not been able to solve.

    26 18.98%
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Thread: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

  1. #51
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    Mar 2006
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    Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    For me it was the worst Ubuntu release ever. Unity with ATI was so unstable it couldn't even load. There was no 2D fallback. It actually made me explore other distro's.

    openSUSE being currently used as my main.

  2. #52
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    Feb 2011
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    Kubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by georgelappies View Post
    For me it was the worst Ubuntu release ever. Unity with ATI was so unstable it couldn't even load. There was no 2D fallback. It actually made me explore other distro's.

    openSUSE being currently used as my main.
    With Unity, i had to install the fglrx updates (i did so ontop of fglrx that didnt work properly), to fix the issue of th desktop not loading. After which everything seemed fine.

    Code:
    apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdcccle-updates
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  3. #53
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    Dec 2005
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    Porto Alegre -
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    Lubuntu

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    My worst experience since dapper drake.
    After an upgrade from 12/04 it wouldn't boot. For now I went back to precise, but will try Mint mate/cinnamon soon.
    spier
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  4. #54
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    Nov 2012
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    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    12.10 is the first linux OS I've used and it installed quickly and works brilliantly, obviously some work was needed to get appropriate drivers and things set up but that was quick and easy. No problems whatsoever!

  5. #55
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    Jul 2011
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    Kubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    I have to come back on a statement I made earlier on successful upgrade. The upgrade went well but last week I tried a clean install of Quantal and it didn't turn out so well, the proprietary Nvidia drivers simply didn't seem to work or get activated after rebooting and I was presented an empty desktop. Clean install of 12.04 has solved the problem for now

  6. #56
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    Nov 2012
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    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    Fresh install. No prob. Xubuntu 12.10

  7. #57
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    Nov 2012
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    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    Did a clean install about a week ago and the install when through flawlessly, but I will have system errors popup alittle more than often more than I did on 12.04.

  8. #58
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    Mar 2012
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    Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by linuxcoffeelover View Post
    Did a clean install about a week ago and the install when through flawlessly, but I will have system errors popup alittle more than often more than I did on 12.04.
    Solution: disable Apport.
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  9. #59
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
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    UK
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    Distro
    Kubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal

    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    Had to downgrade my laptop back to 12.04 (Kubuntu) because it uses a ati mobility HD 4250, which is no longer supported with the fglrx drivers in xserver 1.13. Boo to AMD.

    But my desktop works fine once I updated the fglrx drivers to 12.10 (using an XFX HD5850). That said gaming performance through WINE is poor for me with these drivers. I'm hoping 12.11 will better (though I haven't tried the beta release).

    I'm hoping the upcoming linux Steam release will pressure AMD into providing much better support for linux. Otherwise I'll be buying a Nvidia card for my desktop.

  10. #60
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    Apr 2012
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    Re: Quantal installation and upgrade experience

    The only reason it was a little bad for me was that the new Maximus V Gene from Asus had old BIOS, and I had installed Kubuntu 11.10 for a short period of time, so I could upgrade, but there happened to be some broken packages, and so I had to do a fresh install.
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