On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway.
I've had an update fail too, once. Being retired and having both a laptop and a desktop, I've always made sure my laptop gets upgraded first and is working properly before upgrading my desktop. It took me several days of work, but I eventually had the satisfaction of getting my desktop upgraded without a clean install. Of course, if I were in a production environment, I'd have bitten the bullet, done a fresh install (/home is always on its on partition and wasn't affected by the bad upgrade.) and started putting things back together, because the work I did cleaning things up simply wouldn't have been cost effective. And, probably, if I were working and I had this issue at home, I'd have ended up with a new install because there's only so many hours per day and so much Copious Free Time to spend cleaning up. It's a trade-off. For me, the time spent getting things working were paid for in the satisfaction of a difficult job well done. Not everybody can afford to think that way.
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