Always do a fresh install. Or so they say. I should have listened. Instead, I decided to upgrade Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 with the built-in tool and it's been a disaster. First, it crashed half-way through and wouldn't let me back into the GUI. That's okay, I said: I'll just run the command-line upgrade utility. That worked, but the install is totally messed up. Even in "Ubuntu Classic (with no effects)" I'm getting all kinds of graphical anomalies. I'll do a fresh install from scratch. My only question is whether I'll install 11.04 again or go back to 10.10.
Upgrading wasn't really necessary either. I already have LibreOffice and Firefox 4 via PPAs and I wouldn't want Unity even if my current machine wasn't too antiquate to run it.
Update: I'm reinstalling 10.10. 11.04 simply doesn't work right with my hardware. Actually, my modern Laptop won't even boot the CD, which coupled with the video problems on my very old IBM Pentium 4 tells me that Natty Narwhal simply isn't ready for prime time. Not surprising considering that they decided to foist Unity, a Desktop Environment they made from scratch and that has no following, on everyone in this release. Making the release actually work is apparently a secondary concern.
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