Xubuntu 10.10

[axeman]

I upgraded on my laptop to Xubuntu 10.10 from 10.04

What broke:

- nothing

What's better:

- nothing (slightly changed visuals?)

What's worse:

- new kernel and everything is supposed to be faster, it isn't on this machine, perhaps something to do with the upgrade. Login to usable desktop takes longer now, not too impressed.

- there is basically NOTHING on the screen until the greeter loads, I'm sure this isn't supposed to be like this, somehow things broke, but it's too bad there is no splash screen or anything to let me know that it's not fubar.

I would like to try Unity, but that involves installing a bunch of (added) gnome components. Problem is xfce uses some gnome stuff - when I added Gnome as an option previously, this caused a bunch of junk to load on startup of xfce sessions too - not cool, and I'm not overly anxious to try it again.

[Dirge]

I have heard upgrading can be either hit or miss with Linux, this is something that really shouldn't be. Personally I would rather just do a fresh install, but that can create allot of work.

[axeman]

I have heard upgrading can be either hit or miss with Linux, this is something that really shouldn't be. Personally I would rather just do a fresh install, but that can create allot of work.

This is the 3rd distro upgrade this laptop has had, I'd say upgrading with Ubuntu is more reliable than Windows. Though it looks like not much changed from 10.04 to 10.10 unless you're using Unity.

[naql]

I've got it running on 2 of my computers and I agree there isn't much of a difference between it and 10.04. I'm hoping 11.04 will have XFCE 4.8.

[just brew it!]

I have not given 10.10 a serious spin yet, though I've noticed the longer (and slightly squirrelly) startup behavior when running it in a VM. My plan is to bring my work desktop up to 10.04 and my home desktop up to 10.10 in the very near future. (Work is still back on 8.04 believe it or not, and home is currently on 9.10.)

I almost always do full reinstalls instead of upgrades. While serious breakage on an upgrade install is fairly rare, the last time I did an upgrade there were some little things that didn't seem quite right. It's not like you need to worry about product activation, so "nuke from orbit" every time you move to a new version isn't unreasonable.