RE: Windows XP SP3 vs. Ubuntu upgrade to 8.04
I've performed distribution upgrades with no problems before (Debian Woody to Sarge a few years ago, and Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy more recently on my fileserver) but when I upgraded my laptop from Gutsy to Hardy, it was bad enough for me to abandon it for the Windows XP partition I still had on the laptop. Sound wasn't working until I asked someone for help on IRC (Thanks #ubuntu on Freenode!).
Samba doesn't work right either. I always connect to my samba shares as guest instead of my user, except on my home directory on the fileserver, meaning I have no write permissions for anything. I never traced the problem down because I got too frustrated overall before I got around to it.
The system's also been crawling like a snail since the upgrade. It's only 2 years old, so it shouldn't be that slow. I can understand not having all the bells and whistles, but it didn't even want to run with any speed whatsoever running Enlightenment instead of Gnome.
I guess one of these days I'll try doing a fresh install, but with no support for the built-in webcam, card reader, or power management, I'll probably just stick with XP until it's time to replace this system.
