Question, Re: bug 40983
towsonu2003
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Mon Apr 24 21:05:17 UTC 2006
Derek Broughton Wrote:
> towsonu2003 wrote:
>
> >
> > Derek Broughton Wrote:
> >> Sef wrote:
> >
> >> > The safest way is to reinstall your the os. If you have home
> >> > partition, you don't need to reformat it.
> >
> >> Ack! What a Windows way to go...
> >
> > yet it is the one that works best in any system, regardless of
> > customizations made. not everything windows "says" is wrong...
>
> I'm not convinced it is either the best or the safest. In this case,
> Windows is very definitely wrong. Every time I have reinstalled an OS
> I
> have discovered, after the fact, that I failed to copy over something
> of
> value. It's rarely _important_, but there's always something.
>
> In any Debian-based distro, it should be unnecessary.
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simple misunderstanding. windows is not the best nor the safest. a
clean install, though, is (below).
Andrew Zajac Wrote:
> On 4/24/06, towsonu2003 <ulist (AT) gs1 (DOT) ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> >
> > yet it is the one that works best in any system, regardless of
> > customizations made. not everything windows "says" is wrong...
>
>
>
> I think it's not anti-windows for the sake of being anti-windows. It's
> the
> fact that you usually can't go "under the hood" and fix something in
> windows
> where in linux you can.
>
> It *is* silly to reinstall your OS because of a font configuration
> problem.
> If it takes you longer to find the solution than to reinstall, and also
> if
> you don't mind reinstalling, that may be the best option. By and
> lange,
> though, it is not the best option.
>
>
>
> azz
>
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I agree. but a clean reinstall would be silly, only in a bugfree world
:) when you do a dist-upgrade, there is the possibility to get stuck
with a not-yet-fixed or even a not-yet-discovered bug. It's not like
ubuntu undergoes the crazy testing Debian unstable undergoes.
Hence, if the user doesn't wanna get stuck with some bugs or trash left
by those bugs, it is better to do a clean install. Backing up /etc,
/root, /home (or having a separate partition for the latter) and
referring back to these backups for configuring the newly installed OS
is easiest and safest.
For those who have time, experience, and will to solve glitches, file
and find workarounds to bugs, and clean up any trash dist-upgrade left
around due to a bug or two - there is no problem.
So, to me, in this case, Windows' way (of clean installing the OS) is
the safest and the easiest idea. If we were talking about Debian, I
wouldn't say this. If I knew that dist-upgrade from breezy to dapper is
tested sufficiently, I wouldn't say this either. But in Ubuntu,
insufficient testing shows itself even in issues like leaving the root
password around in world-readable file in plain text.
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