On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:23:35 +0100, SuperEngineer wrote:
...or Dd what I did on my netbook... take the cowards, but simply
beautiful, way out and dual boot 10.04 & 11.04 on the netbook. No
risk,
try before you fly option. See which works best for you and your
friend.
Start by creating a live USB/CD to see if all ok... and then play!
If all seems ok... install as dual boot. Copy important stuff from
one
system to the other & see how you both get on. See how Unity
progresses, see any (if aat all) probs for your netbook, see which
*suits* you best.
for what it's worth I am running (as dual systems) the above scenerio
on
both desktop & netbook machines. My [worth nothing] verdict... 11.04
is
good on netbooks and not [yet] so good as 10.04 on desktops... but i
'keep the [desktop] faith brother' ;)
My problem with this 'simple' approach is that I tested 11,04 before I
installed and it all seemed to work perfectly, so I installed it
properly and then it very soon started to break. But until it has been
running for a while and having updates you don't know if it is going to
work for you or not. It seems like the only way to be safe is to always
be one release behind.
Not sure if that's good or not because obviously newcomers will always
download the latest version, expecting it to be the best.
I currently am only using Win7 at home because 11,04 is just not
working properly (re. WiFi). Sad but true. Not everyone wants the hassle
of trawling the internet for hours trying to make the basic
functionality of getting Wifi working.
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