The Ubuntu developers have outdone themselves this time. If beacons of disaster shone in the sky, their’s would be the brightest. I tried Kubuntu 11.10 on a virtual system and I loved it so much so I opted – against the advice of the little nagging voice in my head – to dive in and upgrade my main ‘non virtual’ OS from Natty 11.04 to Oneiric 11.10. What a mistake! I should have backed up and done a fresh install.
Don’t get me wrong. Oneiric is a great product. Very stable. The developers do magical things that I can only dream of. I appreciate their work a great deal. But the upgrade was a complete disaster that ended in no network connection (wired or wireless), no desktop and probably many other issues I’ve yet to address.
My advice is this: if you want to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 from a previous desktop version, wait a week or two until a few more early adopters have upgraded, found bugs and Ubuntu’s excellent developers have had time to patch them. Otherwise back up the home directory to a DVD and, if you use your computer as a home server, backup your /var/www/ directory and any related databases (use PhpMyAdmin for this) then wipe clean and reinstall before restoring the home directory and anything else you backed up.
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