I’ve been running Ubuntu Breezy on my laptop and secondary workstation for some time now, but I’ve resisted upgrading my main workstation because I didn’t want to chance any problems with the upgrade. I was pretty sure all would go smoothly, but I was still a bit hesitant to muck with my stable machine that I use for almost all of my writing and editing.
But I can only stand running an outdated machine for so long. So, today I did a major backup to an external USB drive and took the plunge. Copying the data to the drive took longer than the actual install… I opted to do a fresh install rather than doing a dist-upgrade. I usually leave the /home directory in place, but decided that I wanted to re-arrange the partition scheme, so /home had to be zapped along with the rest of the data.
After finishing the install, I copied over the bulk of my data and set to work. Smooth as silk (knock on wood…) and everything is going fine. I also took the opportunity to install the xubuntu-desktop package, so I’m using Xfce right now, and enjoying that. I’ll probably install the kubuntu-desktop package tomorrow.
I’m really curious to see how the Dapper Drake release will turn out. Only five more months or so…
