8.10 Updates? - drifting . . .

[Billie Erin Walsh]

Michael wrote:
> Clay Weber wrote:
>   
>> On Tuesday 24 February 2009 3:49:09 pm Cary Bielenberg wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I spent all day yesterday fixing friends PC's  (7) from the fallout. The
>>> 1st thing you have to do is go to the rescue console & repair broken
>>> packages from the dpkg menu then reinstall kwin & all of it's
>>> dependencies. I have 1 at the moment that is still pooched. I talk
>>> people into Linux because it's more dependable then we have this happen
>>> to us.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cary
>>>     
>>>       
>> It *is* pretty dependable, until you enable the unsupported stuff ;)
>>   
>>     
>
> I can't remember if it was this list or another that had this long
> thread about upgrades.
> People seem to be brainwashed into the newest, latest, greatest, etc,
> even though their
> current version suits them just fine.  I think this is a combination of
> human nature and
> also from previous Microsoft marketing.  "Get the newest upgrade!"
>
> My $0.02:  I always wait to upgrade by at least a couple of months.  I
> have yet to even look
> at 8.10  due to all the negative feedback I've seen.  I /might/ upgrade
> to 8.10 when 9.04
> comes out . . .
>
>   

When I did my install of 8.10 it was strictly for testing problems. I 
had no intention of switching until at least 9.10. However sometimes 
things happen. I had had running issues with the video in 8.04 for some 
time. Not impossible to fix but................. Anyway it flopped again 
so I made the move. When KDE4.2 was released I jumped on it because I 
was _NOT_ happy with 4.1.x. Not a move I have regretted in the least. 
The system is stable and works _VERY_ well. When 9.04/4.2 comes out I 
think I will upgrade my laptop from 8.04/3.5.x. I'm completely impressed 
with 4.2.

When I upgraded to 4.2 I just added the ppa repository and let adept 
updater do it's thing. I didn't "try" to upgrade myself. My theory was 
that the system was smarter than me. It seems from some comments that it is.