Thunar upgrade
Greg Folkert
greg at gregfolkert.net
Mon Dec 3 20:01:00 CET 2012
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 17:39 +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On 03/12/12 17:23, Greg Folkert wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 16:59 +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> >> By the way, I do like Xfce very much, and I have installed it for both
> >> daughter and wife on their laptops as well as my desktop. Late next year
> >> perhaps I will see how Xubuntu is going and may move to the latest
> >> version then. I always do a fresh install, never use upgrades.
> >
> > This goes against what Ubuntu and Debian and others are trying to make
> > happen SMOOTHLY. The upgrades routes are tested in significantly diverse
> > setups. You are depriving yourself to actually learning and
> > understanding what is going on.
> >
> Thanks for the info. The main reason I have never tried upgrades is that
> I usually keep on using a particular distro for a long time and by the
> time I am ready to move on the distro itself has moved on by 3 or 4
> versions. So it would never be a case of moving by one version. Also I
> have not always stayed with the same distro. I have been using Linux for
> over 12 years now and I have used Suse, Mandrake (now Mandriva) Kubuntu,
> Mint in various guises and now Xubuntu.
>
> But I take your point. So I could move up to version 12.10 of Xubuntu
> quite easily if I wished by doing an upgrade as opposed to a fresh
> install, is that correct? But would that be of great advantage?
Nearly unattended.
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