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[muladhara]

JFC, I knew upgrading to the most recent LTS version of Ubuntu would be a ball-ache. I'm not quite sure I realised how much of one it would be.

It's just taken me an hour to backup my C drive (although since I'm pretty sure you can't use backups across versions, I'm not sure why I did that). Then I backed some stuff up just to make sure, and now I'm downloading the ISO of 14.04 and, regardless of the fact that I'm sitting right next to the router, it says it will take over an hour to accomplish this (added to which, I haven't even got a full strength signal, and I'm almost on top of it).

So I'm sitting here, listening to a chiptune radio station, and wondering why the hell I bothered.

(I know I'll be happier once it's done (hopefully), it's just getting there, you know?)

I suppose maybe I should read some more Jojos while I wait for it finish downloading (since it's taken me two months so far to read Stone Ocean, and I read the preceding five parts in that amount of time if not less).

EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: during install, I was given the option to upgrade from 12.04 straight to 14.04 while keeping all my files, so I did that, and so far so good! It seems to be working! Long may it continue! I like the little tweaks that make things more legible, and I see some icons have been updated but really there doesn't seem to be much difference. Although it seems to be a bit more responsive, which is good. I seem to have lost the ability to scroll on my touchpad, but eh, you win some, you lose some. [/edit]

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[beccatoria]

This may be a daft thing to suggest cus you may have already tried it, but on my last computer I could only enable touchpad scrolling if I selected that option in the mouse settings - it wasn't on by default. So if you haven't checked the mouse settings, it might just be a change in what's on by default, not what the drivers will support?

[muladhara]

I did look in the settings, but a combination of tired and annoyed meant I couldn't work out what to change (also I had no idea what "two finger scrolling" was), but I've just googled it and found that if you switch that off, then you get normal side scrolling, hurrah! So yeah, essentially, it is a change in default mouse settings. (It seems to scroll more smoothly now, which is nice!)

Although in the typing of this comment, I've just discovered it's enabled the American Keyboard for me for no reason I can fathom, so I'm going to have to switch that over now. (At least System Settings aren't too scary...)

[beccatoria]

Yay! Glad it worked.

I actually have that other problem too. It's kind of annoying. Basically most times I restart the computer (or sometimes when I log in/out) it resets to the US keyboard layout. If you look at the top right system tray, you can see an icon (for me it's next to the wifi signal) that says "EN1" (or maybe just "EN"?) and that's the keyboard layout. If you click it you'll probably see a dropdown with English (UK) and English (US) on it. Even though it says it's on UK it's typing as if it's US. So change it to US, then change it back to UK, and it's fixed. It takes two seconds but it is annoying to have to do it after every startup. :/

There's probably a long-term easy solution, but I haven't tried to sort it out yet cus, uh, I got used to just fixing it real quick on startup and lazy about it...

This thread might have some suggestions, though?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/362973/keyboard-layout-switches-to-english-each-time-i-reboot

[muladhara]

Yeah, mine's in the same place. And clicking it fixes it. Hopefully it'll get fixed, although knowing about the language bug in Firefox that never did...maybe not! (Mind you, that was Mozilla's fault, not Canonical's. Mozilla knew about it, too, but just couldn't be arsed by the seem of things).

Thanks for the link, I will look at it when I'm less tired.