Response for George on switching back to Windows

[Eric]

Ditto. Be it Windows or Linux, I've never been able to upgrade without
finding some hitch later on.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Matthew Hickey <
matthew.hickey at technologytrendz.com> wrote:

> I second what Darcy is saying.  I have been doing IT service and support
> for
> 20+ years and I have never had a good experience with ANY OS upgrade.  I
> always backup data and reinstall.  I have been burned too many times in the
> past trying to do an upgrade, patches, band-aids, etc. only to have to do a
> full reload at the end of all the tweaks.
>
> My professional advice, do a brand new install.  With Ubuntu you cant
> complain about a new install as it takes less than an hour!  Compare this
> to
> other Operating Systems, which can take 4-6 hours to fully install with
> updates!  A new install will answer your questions on what is working and
> what is not.  By the way, scrap the floppy and get some USB memory sticks.
>
>
> Cheers!
> -Matt-
>
>
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> From: George Borusiewich <v.g.borus at sympatico.ca>
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> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:10:34 -0500
> To: <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
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>
> 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
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