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]
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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