On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Michael Greenly wrote: > I've had mixed results with upgrades also. I've fallen into the > practice of backing up /home to external storage and doing clean > installs on fresh partitions. Then I cherry pick what I want from the > backup. Thanks to all. I have a pretty good back-up method, so I think I'll go with the fresh-install approach. There are a few places where I typically put files that might differ from those in the new installation: /home (of course), /etc (config files), /usr/local (scripts I've written, programs I've compiled). After that there are all the Ubuntu packages to deal with, but that isn't too big of a problem -- if I forget one, then when I realize it is missing, I just install it. I think I'll come visit the installfest for a bit, maybe bring a computer to play around with. Having two kids now makes it harder (new boy is 7 months old), but I can bring my daughter (4.5 years) and let her watch movies on her laptop (wearing headphones). She's pretty good at that ... maybe too good. ;-) Mike