Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

brendanperr...@gmail.com schreef op 05-02-2018 18:52: Yes people should back up their data anyway. Implementing this would be quite complicated it seems to me. I realize that e.g. OpenSUSE has a DVD-based upgrade mechanism but at the same time they don't have different 'flavours'. Even if

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

Yes people should back up their data anyway. Implementing this would be quite complicated it seems to me. On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Xen wrote: > Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας schreef op 02-02-2018 17:08: > > Anyway, I just want Ubiquity to feature a cross-distribution >>

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας schreef op 02-02-2018 17:08: Anyway, I just want Ubiquity to feature a cross-distribution upgrade/transfer feature. (e.g. upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 to Lubuntu 16.04, upgrade from Kubuntu 16.04 to Xubuntu 17.10) Honestly this is more a place for an on-system upgrade

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 08:56:25 +, Colin Law wrote: >On 2 February 2018 at 16:08, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: >> I had to copy my `/home` folder over to a USB stick >Of course you will have backed up everything before hand >anyway just in case something goes wrong. Let alone that a user regularly

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

On 2018-02-03 00:05, Robie Basak wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: Can anyone please consider that? Sounds like a great idea! Are you volunteering to write and maintain this support? If not, then I feel that this should be an FAQ item.

Re: Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:08:56PM +0200, Βασίλης Κατσαρέλιας wrote: > Can anyone please consider that? Sounds like a great idea! Are you volunteering to write and maintain this support? If not, then I feel that this should be an FAQ item. Ideas are great and we aren't short of them. What we

Ubuntu and its derivatives (Lubuntu, Xubuntu etc.) should really consider adding cross-distribution installation/upgrade feature in Ubiquity

A few months ago, I had Ubuntu 12.04 (knowing it had reached its EOL) on my PC. I wanted to upgrade to Kubuntu 14.04, but the installer only let me delete it or format the entire disk. The same happened when I first installed Xubuntu 16.04 last year. Also, Lubuntu had the same issue. That was