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I've been upgrading my laptop through 6 releases (it's 3 years old), and never had a single failure.

Do you use the provided upgrade path? It's very surprising to me to hear that - we test upgrades pretty thoroughly.

Disclaimer: I work for Canonical.



I've had to rebuild with a new OS install twice. I've run Ubuntu for probably... crap, is it 10 years now?

It usually coincided with a oh-well-might-as-well-upgrade decision...

At least one was a two major version upgrade. But still.


That's weird. Nobody I know has ever made a successful Ubuntu version upgrade. There was literally no case where nothing broke. I resigned; I will make a clean new install if I want a new version.


I know this is not the proper way to register a bug, but there's a problem when installing 14.04 on a UEFI motherboard that does not have Secure Boot. The installer just assumes there's Secure Boot on and the bootloader gets misconfigured.




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