Cussing and Praising Kubuntu
I took the plunge and decided to upgrade my two Gutsy boxes to Hardy. These are real working PCs, not experimental test boxes, so I was hoping for a straightforward dist-upgrade that preserved all of my settings and applications. Doing a complete wipe-n-reinstall on real working PCs is for Windows luzers; real geeks dist-upgrade forever.
I have never had a successful Ubuntu dist-upgrade, so I had low expectations. Amazingly, it was successful on my computer...
...which surprised me because the poor thing gets thrashed in all kinds of ways. I'm forever installing weird software and hardware, and doing source builds and backports and you name it, and it keeps on chugging anyway. I gave it a good housecleaning first to give it a fighting chance and deleted all the weird junk, and it went fine except for one thing-- those dratted NVidia drivers. We hatess Nvidia. Unfortunately we hatess all the 3D alternatives even more, though I've been thinking it's time to give the open source ATI 3D chipsets a try.
The upgrade failed on the video completely--
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