kiddo
July 26th, 2005, 10:49 AM
Hello folks, there is an issue that still tickles me with Ubuntu. I have to admit that comes from over 10 years as a windowser and only one year as a linuxer. When I dist-upgrade, I don't get .. let's say, a "clean feel" with that. Not that I don't feel "secure" about upgrading my packages. It's just that I find it hard to know "my distro is exactly like a spanking new one should be when it's shipped".
I'll try to um... explain a little bit better @_@
Let's use an example. When I installed a Hoary (preview release) on my laptop, it ran just fine. And I also had the upgrade manager thing there automatically. Wow I said. But my main desktop, which was dist-upgraded from warty (and in a painful way, because within those two weeks, I have killed my xorg setup at least thirty times heehee), did not have that ubuntu update notifier, which I liked. I noticed though that creating a new user afterwards, that user would get the update notifier. So that means that it's on a per-user basis.
Then ... it's a bit annoying you see, I don't know how to "discover all the new shinyness of the new release" since my user is stuck with its configs.
Of course you can delete the user. But that's barbarian and it would also wipe out some tweaks.
Then, the issue ticking me the most (and I seek your point of view on this) is for major changes, like boot time. I think my laptop booted way faster than the dist-upgraded desktop. However this laptop has a quarter of the ram and CPU and the hard drive is surely slow.
So, to me it appears like it DOES make a difference in dist-upgrading and installing a clean distro, somewhat like formatting your windows XP box every two months because it attained a "personality of its own" (I'm sure I'm not the only one who experienced that when I was a windowser).
And so I have the two opposing forces:
doing a clean install from a badger colony when I get back home around middle august
waiting for october (ARGH! x_x) to enjoy a fully clean desktop
Sorry for the long post, but I had to share this thing that has been fogging my mind for some time now ](*,)
I'll try to um... explain a little bit better @_@
Let's use an example. When I installed a Hoary (preview release) on my laptop, it ran just fine. And I also had the upgrade manager thing there automatically. Wow I said. But my main desktop, which was dist-upgraded from warty (and in a painful way, because within those two weeks, I have killed my xorg setup at least thirty times heehee), did not have that ubuntu update notifier, which I liked. I noticed though that creating a new user afterwards, that user would get the update notifier. So that means that it's on a per-user basis.
Then ... it's a bit annoying you see, I don't know how to "discover all the new shinyness of the new release" since my user is stuck with its configs.
Of course you can delete the user. But that's barbarian and it would also wipe out some tweaks.
Then, the issue ticking me the most (and I seek your point of view on this) is for major changes, like boot time. I think my laptop booted way faster than the dist-upgraded desktop. However this laptop has a quarter of the ram and CPU and the hard drive is surely slow.
So, to me it appears like it DOES make a difference in dist-upgrading and installing a clean distro, somewhat like formatting your windows XP box every two months because it attained a "personality of its own" (I'm sure I'm not the only one who experienced that when I was a windowser).
And so I have the two opposing forces:
doing a clean install from a badger colony when I get back home around middle august
waiting for october (ARGH! x_x) to enjoy a fully clean desktop
Sorry for the long post, but I had to share this thing that has been fogging my mind for some time now ](*,)