On 11/12/2009 09:43 AM, Roger wrote:
The question really comes down to how important the constant upgrades
really are to each of us.
Not quite. I lived very happily with F8 (KDE3.5) until 11 came out. Mind
you, it was because KDE4 sucked, but that's another discussion. By F11,
though, there was 0 support for F8 - no security fixes, no shiny new
features (20sec boot, anyone?). At some point I want to get the new stuff.
Golly I have difficulty with upgrades because the kmod-nvidia and
kernel upgrades have a time difference and Blender stops working. I
could never get akmod-nvidia working successfully.
That sucks :( At least AMD has released the necessary info for improving
radeon driver - so far it works on all ATI cards I have.
Don't know if you've heard, but nvidia is not planning to do the same
for their cards.
Your first * problem is solved with a spare hard drive which lets you
experiment. What if you spent 10 percent of your time every week on
the new op system, a couple of weeks and it's done.
This allows me to get the feel of the new system, yes - but it doesn't
provide the complete picture. And just try telling my boss I'll spend
10% of my time tweaking the new system - he'll axe-murder you.
From what you wrote in the first email, it's not the upgrade but the
tweeking that will take your time as it did for your current operating
system and if you made notes of successful alterations you have a good
starting point for the tweeks.
It sounds like you think I'm the OP; I'm not :)
But your point is valid - I also make a lot of tweaks in my system. And
sure, it's not hard redoing all that work.
But my point was -- why should I have to?? Most programs can be upgraded
in-place and keep using the previously defined settings. I've cleaned
up/merged many .rpmnew and .rpmsave configs without any problems. And
I've seen a new package completely replace an old package in a regular
update.
So what's the goal/point of upgrades?
Just saying...
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