So Ubuntu’s newest version, Edgy Eft or however you spell it launches officially tomorrow and I decided to get an early jump on it by upgrading. Primarly, I wanted to see if the speed advantages are worth it and also its a complete waste to try within a few days after the release do to the slam from everyone else upgrading. So, I do my usual editing of the sources list to change Dapper to Edgy and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade to start the thing. It reports it’ll take about 40mins to download all 1200mb of updates. Not a problem, I got work.
Ten hours later I come home, flick the mouse to unblack the sleeping monitor and find out…it hasn’t even started the install!Apparently, for the past nine hours, it sat there at a screen waiting for me to hit “ok” as to whether I wanted it to install the ‘new’ flash plugin. Umm, hello? I already HAD flash installed. Wouldn’t logic follow that I want it installed again, the new, updated version? Where’s the user friendliness in that? Isn’t that what Ubuntu is supposed to be working towards? Humanity?
Another thing, I’m sitting here and I have to sheperad the install along because it keeps asking whether I want to install the package maintainers .conf file or my own. Personally, I couldn’t give a rats ass. I don’t go in and make custom changes to the .conf file, nor do I even make custom changes to the make files. I just wanted the application installed. Its idiotic to ask a user that type of a question. Automatically backup our original file ifs different, and then, when we launch the upgraded application for the first time ask us. That makes far more sense than to stop an install after its already sat for…nine hours.
Basically, what should have been a two hour upgrade has now taken almost 11hrs. Pathetic. Thats if this works that is. The last upgrade (to dapper drake) completely borked three times, whether upgrading from Beta, RC2, or the final release. Thankfully, all my personal data is actually archived and backed up to CD and HD this time. Hell, I feel like Im running Windows again