From what I understand, the majority of the problems are a result of "upgrading" rather than formatting the hard drive and doing a clean install.
I never upgrade for this very reason. Doing a clean install aleviates many headaches. Upgrading should not even be a consideration.
I've been saying this for years Ian. The good news is that you can leave your /home partition unformatted and untouched, and in this way you can save your complete desktop setup, emails, etc.
Even so and just in case, it's always a good ides to copy your home folder to another drive or unaffected partition so that you can protect your data and settings in case some glitch occurs.
Lanman
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