Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote:
The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political
decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more
sensible and technology-led distro..
Unity is what brought me to Debian. Recent Canonical decisions only
encouraged my switch.
So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by
altering my APT sources?
I highly doubt this will work, I suspect Plymouth and Upstart will give
you serious headaches.
I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I
do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer
not to have to recompile.
I've seen blogs saying people where abducted by aliens, doesn't mean
it's true.
> I'm pretty technically-adept and don't mind
fixing a few issues, but I'd just like to get any horror stories or
otherwise that anyone has.
What if "a few issues" turns out to be significantly more then a "few"?
I would recommend trying the process on a virtual machine and see what
happens there first (something I plan to try when I get some time).
Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now
you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem
like a good idea to me.
Backing up your data/settings and performing a fresh Debian install
makes sense to me.
Best of luck whatever you decide,
George
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