Seska
March 21st, 2010, 09:45 AM
I enjoyed Ubuntu for almost 2 years. Unfortunately after upgrading to Karmic everything started to go donwhill.
After I upgraded to karmic koala, my internet connection was either ultra-slow or non-existing at all. I managed to fix this problem... well ALMOST. My internet connection wasn't slow anymore, but I had problems with DNS thingy. There was no fix for months so I had to go back to Windows on all my desktops, but I kept Ubuntu on my laptop. The DNS problem was annoying, but I was hoping for a fix in Lucid Beta.
Well, as we all know, the beta release was moved by one day, but I couldn't take it anymore and "upgraded" my Karmic with Alpha 3 on 3/18.
BAD idea! Karmic didn't fix my DNS problem and I had really hard time to even boot it. After 3rd reboot + update to beta everything died. I can log in, but there's nothing but empty wallpaper - no menus, no nothing... I tried everything to fix it - repair, update, upgrade... even installed KDE over Gnome, but all I get is an empty screen with my old wallpaper.
I had dual boot Ubuntu/Windows on my laptop, but Win is now gone as well - it won't boot, repair, nothing...
So I was thinking - can I install some more stable distro (probably Debian) over Ubuntu without losing any data? There's almost nothing in my Ubuntu installation, but I have (had) more than 15GB of photos in Windows.
Oh and btw - by "some more stable" I mean something older (that works), not that Ubuntu is unstable or anything, it's just probably too good for me.
After I upgraded to karmic koala, my internet connection was either ultra-slow or non-existing at all. I managed to fix this problem... well ALMOST. My internet connection wasn't slow anymore, but I had problems with DNS thingy. There was no fix for months so I had to go back to Windows on all my desktops, but I kept Ubuntu on my laptop. The DNS problem was annoying, but I was hoping for a fix in Lucid Beta.
Well, as we all know, the beta release was moved by one day, but I couldn't take it anymore and "upgraded" my Karmic with Alpha 3 on 3/18.
BAD idea! Karmic didn't fix my DNS problem and I had really hard time to even boot it. After 3rd reboot + update to beta everything died. I can log in, but there's nothing but empty wallpaper - no menus, no nothing... I tried everything to fix it - repair, update, upgrade... even installed KDE over Gnome, but all I get is an empty screen with my old wallpaper.
I had dual boot Ubuntu/Windows on my laptop, but Win is now gone as well - it won't boot, repair, nothing...
So I was thinking - can I install some more stable distro (probably Debian) over Ubuntu without losing any data? There's almost nothing in my Ubuntu installation, but I have (had) more than 15GB of photos in Windows.
Oh and btw - by "some more stable" I mean something older (that works), not that Ubuntu is unstable or anything, it's just probably too good for me.