Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

[macgyver2]

This has been a problem for me lately (in most distros I've used).

When I tried to upgrade from warty to hoary, I lost my X, and some stuff didnt work (I dont remember now).
When I upgraded debian (when sarge became stable), most things in apt-get collapsed because of the change of names.
So instead of having some headaches, I've decided that when Breezy hits stable, I will format the partition and install from scratch.

What will you do?

Was that really an issue?? For a distro that strives to be the most user-friendly one around, failing to provide a smooth upgrade is a major boo-boo...

However, I'm guessing that if there were widespread problems like yours going from warty to hoary (I can't comment personally...I switched over after hoary was released) it was because it was the first such release upgrade for Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers are some of the best around...I bet the issues will be minimal this time around (and for the many, many releases in the future).

I say try the upgrade first.

[Xian]

Was that really an issue?? For a distro that strives to be the most user-friendly one around, failing to provide a smooth upgrade is a major boo-boo...

My impression is that it should not be a problem.
However, when I did the Warty/Hoary upgrade I had no backports installed.

My understanding is that they will not cause upgrade issues.
We shall see.....

[super]

yeah i`m surprised at the probs people have ran into upgrading.

i admit the upgrading could be a bit less painful but personally i only had a few minor issues upgrading. i had originally installed from a preview cd and had to upgrade after the final release. i ran into some xserver problems but nothing i couldn`t fix in a half hour.

can`t wait to check out breezy! especially the new GNOME.

[Burgundavia]

Please give the upgrade path a lot of testing. The only way it can be made better is if you upgrade. So even if you are planning to reinstall, do an upgrade and report bugs on it.

Corey

[super]

Please give the upgrade path a lot of testing. The only way it can be made better is if you upgrade. So even if you are planning to reinstall, do an upgrade and report bugs on it.

Corey

gotcha! will do!

[RastaMahata]

Please give the upgrade path a lot of testing. The only way it can be made better is if you upgrade. So even if you are planning to reinstall, do an upgrade and report bugs on it.

Corey

nice idea. besides, I'm using backports too, so I would like to see how it goes
So I hope someone gets some screenshots as soon as Breezy is released, so I can see the graphical installer (is this true?)

[Burgundavia]

The graphical installer really is just a copier. Basically you boot the live cd and then click on the Ubuntu Express button to install the system.

My understanding is that you can do some customization and it will install those as well.

Corey

[jeremy]

I will probably backup my /home then try to upgrade, if that proves to be very complicated, I'll do a fresh install of breezy.

[benplaut]

Please give the upgrade path a lot of testing. The only way it can be made better is if you upgrade. So even if you are planning to reinstall, do an upgrade and report bugs on it.

Corey

rgr, will do!

[Parkaboy]

I have upgraded from warty to hoary with no problem at all, however I usually preffer to install from the very beggining