On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:29, Stephen W wrote:
My opinion (MNTBHO): When I was in the Windows environment I learned quite early to not to try to upgrade a version.
I think that's very true, I personally consider my home cut of windows as something with about a 2 years max shelf life. Usually by then, if not earlier, I'll re-install everything from scratch and it will overhaul completely my computing experience. Linux (any distro) certainly has it's pains in doing this, but I would say that it's not as bad as Windows as long as you consider yourself at least an intermediate level user. Most of the time, it tends to be about getting mods up to date with the kernel, you lose your sound or display, etc. With Windows, there's things like registry bloat and conflicts, spyware, worms, etc. I simply won't bother upgrade Windows ever, whereas I will occasioanlly with Linux. I think the Registry is probably the single biggest reason for this. However, having said that, I tend to back up my data and re-install no matter what OS I'm talking about...:) There is one downside to that, however - some config aspects of Linux involve a lot of hard work and research, and starting over again can really be a pain. The big advantage is if the new version you're installing is better at configging your hardware for you... Cheers, J.C. -- John Coldrick www.axyzfx.com Axyz Animation Houdini/Renderman/Discreet 425 Adelaide St W 416-504-0425 Toronto, ON Canada jc@axyzfx.com M5V 1S4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Campbell's Law: Nature abhors a vacuous experimenter.