On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:07 AM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]>wrote:
The only major issue I had was that > you can't do in-place major version upgrades, you have to back up to > external HDD, clean install, and restore. Well, fugg that. I responded to a similar thread on the ProLinux list. My answer, essentially, is that backup-flatten-and-install (aka "Freemanizing") is really the only way to keep cruft from accumulating on any system. I'm not a fan, and wish things went more smoothly. I've always had problems with previously-installed applications, drivers, fonts, etc. Clean install rids all that cruft, at the cost of a few hours of solid backup and reinstalling new stuff. The last round of updates have been migrating from 32- to 64-bit, which necessitates the reinstall. Before that, it was leaving a troublesome printer monitor behind. It's always something. In the long run, I think doing the Freeman is the better way. > > > it's the best desktop operating system of all. > > It might well be on paper. So might OS/2, NeXT, AmigaOS and so on. All favorites. > This > means very little, in the business world at least, if the general > purpose applications that most businesses of any size use from day to > day don't exist, and they largely don't. There's also a reason people > still use MS Office, Exchange, Photoshop et al and put up with the crap > that they have to put up with (see Adobe's new cloud-only model), and > that's because they work well and integrate well. > And I can run LibreOffice and Thunderbird and GIMP and read and write all their files. And I have a solid OS I'm happy with. Works out well for everyone. I'm not an advocate who pushes all my clients to run Linux. I don't want to do OS support for any clients, thank you very much. They can run what their "computer guy" recommends. Me, I get the system that gives me the tools I need. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4ten-vlecvfeo+5zft-sm5yegcapyowd_goshzrpvh...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
