Ubuntu is like un-upgradeable. I've upgraded in the past and ran into all kinds of problems. You have to just install clean and transfer information its a pain in the ass and useless. |
To be fair...
Yeah,
package manager problems are a fact of life, but
Ubuntu does a better job than most. I had that problem upgrading
Fedora, which indeed is un-upgradable. I didn't have major problems upgrading Ubuntu, but I did apt-get myself into trouble on a couple of occasions - and I'm not a
n00b, so that just goes to show you that viruses and other n00b mistakes that happen on Windows do
have their Linux analogues.
And it's easier to rebuild the
OS with UNIX - just keep
/home on a separate partition and have script to backup
/etc, /var/www, and whatever else you need. It's also very simple to generate a script to install or remove the packages you like or dislike, etc. It takes a whole day to break in a Windows system -
service packs /
updates,
drivers, all the apps you gotta download from separate places,
Office,
Visual Studio and
MSDN take particularly long to install, etc. There's no excuse for Windows not having decent package management system, even if it would have to be a third party product for antitrust reasons. With Windows you should do the same thing - keep the OS on a separate partition (just Windows,
Program Files, and
user settings), and put all the documents, downloads,
temp files, etc on other partitions. Then simply use something like
Norton Ghost for regular differential backups.
I just ended my last Linux experiment, and have gone back to Windoze. [...] Fuck that Linux shit, it's not worth the hassle. |
I'd bet that at least 80% of people who try Linux as a desktop OS come to the same conclusion.
It's better when you ease into it. For the first few years of my experience, UNIX was something I connected to from an
ANSI terminal (via a
dial-up BBS gateway) to unzip my Web pages and
chmod my
CGI scripts. Then I switched to
ssh'ing to a remote box, and learned quite a bit about the command line before I ever installed a Linux / BSD partition myself. (I actually don't remember which one I succeeded in installing first, I didn't keep it long.) For a long time my
Gentoo partition (also accessible via
VMware) became more of a game, and a good way to waste
CPU cycles...