How many upgrades have you been through?

[Tiede]

I have seen a lot of post around these parts hinting at the fact while some usually do a clean install, others prefer to just upgrade their big ole ubuntu box every time a new version comes out through apt-get. As a conclusion, through an oxymoronic sudden thought I had out of the blue, I decided to start this thread to actually see for myself what the trend tends to be...
I'll start:
I've known ubuntu since warty - actually, exactly on october 1st!!! - and I did upgrade to Hoary with apt-get. Then I installed breezy on both my desktop and my then spankin' new laptop.
Since, I have found myself reinstalling for both Dapper and Edgy on the desktop, and yet oddly have never reinstalled on the laptop: I apt-getted from Breezy to Dapper to Edgy...

Quite a boringly unusual story, as you may see... Care to top it with yours?
(I'm thinking especially with this new update-manager -c option, things may become quite interesting )

[Atomic Dog]

I have always done a fresh install and backed up what I needed. I upgraded the wifey's laptop from Dapper to Edgy...don't want to get into it, but lets just say that's the last time I will attempt to upgrade.

I likes it fresh baby!

[RandomJoe]

I've had terrible luck with upgrades, no matter the distro. Not sure if I just manage to get things sufficiently non-standard, or what, but they almost always end in pain and frustration! Fresh, clean installs for me. It's faster and easier to restore my data afterward.

With Ubuntu I tried upgrading from 5.10 to 6.06 on a couple of machines. My work laptop's Ubuntu partition which sees very little use and almost no customization actually succeeded, but there were little quirks that I had to iron out. The desktop that I use primarily for my media PC crashed and burned horribly on the upgrade - wouldn't even boot after it was through.

[matthew]

I have several computers so I voted using the most successful with upgrades, a very simple installation on a desktop with very standard hardware. It's been upgraded all the way from Hoary to Edgy.

My laptop, on the other hand, has had problems every time I have tried to upgrade and has needed a fresh install each time. It has some proprietary hardware and I tend to do a lot of customization on it, so this isn't especially surprising to me.

[AndyCooll]

I always do fresh installs.

I have had problems when doing upgrades. It is probably as a result of my own errors rather than the Ubuntu upgrade process. Nonetheless I now avoid this method.

[hoagie]

I updated from breezy to dapper but then dapper died so I reinstalled it and then I upgraded from dapper to edgy...It has been a flawless procedure both times for me.

[_simon_]

Save what I need to DVD then do a fresh install.

Fresh install Breezy -> Dapper -> Edgy

[beercz]

Started with Warty and upgraded ever since.

Going to upgrade to feisty very soon.

[Edit]Now running feisty just fine.[Edit]

[M_the_C]

I started on Dapper and I am still on Dapper.

If I ever decide to go Edgy I will probably do it as an Edgy install as I have a load of rubbish on my computer at the moment.

[Iarwain ben-adar]

Went from Dapper to Edgy to Feisty

Feisty is capable of recognising my "MediaDirect" buttons...


Iarwain