Running upgrades

For those of you who may have already upgraded, what can I expect?

I have never had anything other than a stable install, even with beta software. Now I am upgrading to Intrepid and am running lots of non standard software and even Opera beta.

Am I about to witness finally what everyone seems to complain about?

expect breakage disaster and frustration why else would you run an alpha ? (and not even an alpha yet) we are all volunteers here and you were warned, join the fun !

Well, what to expect ? .... :)

• a major disaster without backups and /home on a separate partition.

• You are forced to learn the terminal

• learn package management and apt/aptitude

• learning manual procedures without any GUI function

howto manually handle a driver :) the nVidia challenge...:)

• Users with 3D drivers will hate a dev version without knowledge

But /home on a separate partition and it takes 15 minutes to be "back on track" after a total breakage.

:)

EDIT forgot

• Your favorite app can be broken you are forced to find a substitute :^o

There's no point in running Intrepid at this point, unless you're a toolchain hacker, or want to gain experience in reverting massive breakage.

LaRoza said:

Am I about to witness finally what everyone seems to complain about?

<DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

plun said: Well, what to expect ? .... :)

• a major disaster without backups and /home on a separate partition.

• You are forced to learn the terminal

• learn package management and apt/aptitude

• learning manual procedures without any GUI function

That isn't a disaster. I have backups of everything. I am very familiar with the terminal (yes, X didn't start which is what I expected.) and I didn't feel at all hampered by the lack of a GUI (I use the terminal mostly anyway).

I always use command line package managers so that didn't change.

Luckily, my best apps (except Opera) are CLI, so it didn't matter.

23meg said: There's no point in running Intrepid at this point, unless you're a toolchain hacker, or want to gain experience in reverting massive breakage.

Yes, I wanted to have fun with the extreme unstableness.

ShodanjoDM said: <DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

<Jawa>Natigee! Askaba, shonabar!</Jawa>

I'll continue to update Hardy but I guess the time to start testing Intrepid is with the first Alpha release.

ShodanjoDM said: <DarthVader>You will see the power of the Dark Side</DarthVader>

Come to the dark side we have cookies and updates daily!

if you're a good problem solver, then i think you will find it a fun experience. (most of the time). ;)