I don’t mean the command itself, I mean moving from one point release to another via dist-upgrade. Has never once worked out well for me using *buntu. If I had left those people alone they’d still be running Breezy without a problem. Upgrading requires a voluntary effort, that regular users wouldn’t normally make.
To Ubuntu’s defence, their update model doesn’t shove upgrades down anybody’s throat. Not to mention the upgrade process freezing once during the initialization phase, or refusing to go on because of a couple of lines in source.list it didn’t like (that it added itself!) On another, the upgrade stripped the NVidia binary driver but neglected to replace “Driver ‘nvidia'” with “Driver ‘nv'” in nf, leaving the system unusable for that user’s level of expertise. On one occasion the automatic network connection was dropped. I’ve coaxed a number of people during the last days upgrade from Breezy and it’s fortunate I supervised the move.
I don’t think it’s OK for an upgrade of one of the most prominent Linux desktop distro’s to resemble the “fun” I usually have with my “unstable” Debian home box.
Upgrading (as opposed to clean installs) is one of the main advantages of a Linux desktop.
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