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[Darcy Casselman]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:10 PM, George Borusiewich
<v.g.borus at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I have had a personal prejudice against Microsoft for years. Therefore,
> it was with a sigh of relief that I (as a noobie) embraced linux and
> ubuntu in 2006. I was a militant convert. I was determined to make
> ubuntu work. And at first, ubuntu worked perfectly. Then, after several
> upgrades, my sound stopped working. Now, after another upgrade, my
> floppy disk stopped working. I thought that upgrades were supposed to
> improve the product, not make it worse. I have spent countless hours
> searching various forums trying to correct something that worked
> perfectly well in the previous version. For the first time this week, I
> have seriously thought about dumping linux and going back to (hated)
> Microsoft. George

I'm not clear on whether you're looking for help to fix your problems,
or looking for a place to gripe.  If you're looking for help, this is
the right place.  If you're looking to gripe, I don't think you can
expect a warm and appreciative response.

Ubuntu's upgrade process is pretty impressive, but I do find a clean
re-install is helpful every couple releases.

Darcy.