Just as points of comparison, you may want to check out these threads:
Feisty Poll
Did you have success upgrading to Edgy?
poll : Did you upgrade to Dapper or reinstall ? Did you encounter problems?
Curent poll for Gutsy:
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View Poll Results: What was your gutsy install/upgrade experience ?
Upgrade - worked flawlessly 123 13.59%
Upgrade - worked but had few things to solve 221 24.42%
Upgrade - got many problems that i've not been able to solve 212 23.43%
Install - worked flawlessly 73 8.07%
Install - worked but had few things to solve 130 14.36%
Install - got many problems that i've not been able to solve 146 16.13%
Feisty:
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I upgraded to Feisty and everything is fine. 309 22.33%
I upgraded. Had a few problems (drivers, hardware, etc) but got them fixed. 168 12.14%
I upgraded. Had/Still having a lot of problems 203 14.67%
I did a clean install and everything is fine. 334 24.13%
Did clean install. Had a few problems (drivers, hardware, etc) but got them fixed. 152 10.98%
Did clean install. Had/Still having a lot of problems. 218 15.75%
Edgy:
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The upgrade went perfectly! 303 24.84%
I had a few problems. 392 32.13%
I encountered serious problems. (for example, can't connect to Internet) 246 20.16%
Things went really badly and I can't [ log in, boot, etc ]! 279 22.87%
Dapper:
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I installed Dapper from cd and I have encountered big problems. 35 6.22%
I installed Dapper from cd and I have encountered some small problems. 77 13.68%
I installed Dapper from cd and I haven't encountered any problems at all. 112 19.89%
I dist-upgraded Breezy to Dapper using a graphical tool and I have encountered big problems. 75 13.32%
I dist-upgraded Breezy to Dapper using a graphical tool and I have encountered some small problems. 68 12.08%
I dist-upgraded using a graphical tool and I haven't encountered any problems at all. 32 5.68%
I dist-upgraded Breezy to Dapper from the terminal and I have encountered big problems. 38 6.75%
I dist-upgraded Breezy to Dapper from the terminal and I have encountered some small problems. 70 12.43%
I dist-upgraded Breezy to Dapper from the terminal and I haven't encountered any problems at all. 36 6.39%
Other. Please explain. 20 3.55%
Percentages with flawlesss upgrades (number of respondents with flawless upgrades out of the total number of respondents who upgraded (as opposed to doing a clean reinstall):
Gutsy: 22.12%
Feisty: 45.44%
Edgy: 24.84%
Dapper: 21.32%
So it looks as if the success rate is much higher for Feisty, but the one people thought of as the "stablest" (merely because it's LTS, which just means it's supported for a longer period of time) actually had the lowest success rate. The moral of the story is not to upgrade right when a release comes out.
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