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posted by [identity profile] pjc50.livejournal.com at 02:19pm on 08/08/2008
To be fair, you can get the same effect on a windows machine by not reinstalling from scratch over 8 years, just upgrading...

Or try to upgrade the C: drive of a Windows machine without a reinstall. That's a fun one.

My most recent upgrade and the one I made my parents do have both been to buy entirely new machines. :)
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posted by [identity profile] sigisgrim.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 08/08/2008
Yes, OSs don't really seem to upgrade very well, regardless of whether they are M$ or opensource. My policy is to get a new machine and simply use it until it runs out of steam without doing any major upgrades at all. My W2K machine was bought in 2001 and is still going strong on the same OS. The only hardware changes are the addition of a network card and some second HDD swaps.

I'm in the process of changing over to a Vista 64bit machine. I don't plan on changing that for many years. Though I will be recreating the old machine with Ubuntu. When I'm happy with that I fully expect to apply the same policy.
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posted by [personal profile] pm215 at 02:59pm on 08/08/2008
Actually, Ubuntu come the closest to a completely pain-free version upgrade that I've encountered so far.
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