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KBD47
October 23rd, 2011, 12:04 AM
I know a lot of folks do upgrades, just curious how many downgraders are out there? How many of you have moved back to older releases for stability, features, etc.?

I'm a downgrader from 11.10 Xubuntu to 11.04 Xubuntu because the older version gave me perfect video while the newer version broke my video.
KBD47
Gremlinzzz
October 23rd, 2011, 03:04 AM
I downgraded to 2.6.38-8-generic.
was having problems with 11.10:popcorn:
Linux Mint 11 'Katya'.
ubupirate
October 23rd, 2011, 03:08 AM
Tried 11.04, went back to 10.04.

Tried 11.10, went back to 10.04.
tredsyn
October 23rd, 2011, 03:54 AM
tried Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal), after a couple of days
downgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 with gnome 2.30.2

reason: kernel 2.6.32-25 low latency
ubupirate
October 23rd, 2011, 04:01 AM
How many downgraders, upgraded their kernel? lol

I'm 10.04.3 using kernel 3.1-rc10.
KBD47
October 23rd, 2011, 04:07 AM
I downgraded to 2.6.38-8-generic.
was having problems with 11.10:popcorn:
Linux Mint 11 'Katya'.

I think maybe that the newest kernal was making my netbook run warmer. But on the plus side my wireless was picking up every network in the neighborhood on the newest kernal.
IWantFroyo
October 23rd, 2011, 04:14 AM
I skipped 11.04 altogether...
krapp
October 23rd, 2011, 04:49 AM
I think a lot of people have to reinstall an older trusted version after an over hasty upgrade. Me too.
xtremo
October 23rd, 2011, 09:50 AM
I regressed from 11.10 to 11.04....no prizes for guessing why!
NormanFLinux
October 23rd, 2011, 10:16 AM
I regressed from 11.10 to 11.04....no prizes for guessing why!


No. I had to upgrade the kernel with 11.04 because there was a conflict with the wireless drivers. I have no such kernel problem on 11.10. I think the problem was also due to the incompatibility of Unity with GNOME 2.32. Now that GNOME has been upgraded, for me it all runs smooth now.
keithpeter
October 23rd, 2011, 02:30 PM
Hello All

I went Xubuntu 11.04 -> Debian Squeeze with dwm on the desktop PC. So a sort of 'ancestor downgrade' if that makes sense. Kernel is 2.6.32-5-686.

At least one year support as 'old stable' after testing goes stable.
linuxyogi
October 23rd, 2011, 02:58 PM
Tried Lubuntu 11.04, downgraded to Xubuntu 10.04 for stability.
Flymo
October 23rd, 2011, 03:02 PM
Tried 11.04, went back to 10.04.

Tried 11.10, went back to 10.04.

Us too... Well, we tried 11.04, went back to 10.04, then tried 11.10...

We do keep a 'testing' partition on this and other machines, makes it a lot easier to do this. Current occupant is Bodhi Linux 1.2.x
kurt18947
October 23rd, 2011, 03:55 PM
Us too... Well, we tried 11.04, went back to 10.04, then tried 11.10...

We do keep a 'testing' partition on this and other machines, makes it a lot easier to do this. Current occupant is Bodhi Linux 1.2.x

The only way to do it. Saves much angst and anger.
Flymo
October 23rd, 2011, 04:45 PM
Yup!

Been there, tried the angst and anger, ate the T-shirt.....
Gremlinzzz
October 23rd, 2011, 05:20 PM
I downgraded to 2.6.38-8-generic.
was having problems with 11.10:popcorn:
Linux Mint 11 'Katya'.

back to 10,04:popcorn:
2.6.32-34-generic

2.6.38-8-generic heat problem
Dry Lips
October 23rd, 2011, 05:23 PM
I didn't downgrade. I simply didn't upgrade. Or rather, 11.10 was
installed on a separate partition. (I triple-boot on my main computer,
and double boot on my other computer.)
amjjawad
October 23rd, 2011, 06:07 PM
Tried Lubuntu 11.04, downgraded to Xubuntu 10.04 for stability.

Hi,

Any problems with Lubuntu 11.04?
I'm a member of the team and I'd like to listen to people and see what problems they have with Lubuntu :)