Re: [trinity-users] trying to avoid rebuilding whole system

said Felix Miata: | dep composed on 2017-07-26 19:47 (UTC-0400): | > while i'm here -- there was talk that there was something wrong with | > 16.04 and that 14.04 was preferable. as my current situation | > demonstrates, i'm not a big fan of upgrading distributions, and going | > only to 14.04 means i get to do this all over again in two years. so | > -- have the issues with 16.04 been ironed out, or is it still to be | > avoided? | | Are you sure the problem with 16.04 wasn't about KDE users upgrading | from a mature KDE4 to a buggy Plasma 5 rather than 14.04LTS itself? no, i'm not. if that is an issue that stops the show, then i'll do 14.04LTS and hope for something happier by 18.04LTS. | What does Ubuntu offer a TDE user over the Debian base on which Ubuntu | is based anyway? in my case, the fact that i'm using it, and unless i'm much mistaken (a distinct possibility, maybe a probability), changing sources to debian and giving it the dist-upgrade command would produce surprises of a kind i'm hoping to avoid. | Is going straight from 12.04 to 16.04 even supported? To keep trouble to | a minimum or nil probably requires going to 14.04 first. this is what i'm trying to find out, from someone more familiar with it than i am -- i used to keep current on all this stuff but simply lack the time for it anymore. hence discovering i've reached the point where my 12.04LTS has expired and i need to tend to it. (i am certain that i've never gone 5 years without upgrading my OS anymore -- i remember covering the rollout of new versions of OS/2 in new york so as to get the new release earliest, and going from office to office in armonk until i found someone with a copy of 2.0 when the initial all-IBM release came. then, we *had* to keep backups of everything because there were several issues the lone cure to which was the dreaded rf/ri -- reformat, reinstall. which i am here kinda hoping to avoid.) -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com