You talking to me? I never said I had the solution to the general problem. I only said that it doesn't seem like as big a problem as the Mint guys claim.
True, I did say that Ubuntu has solved this problem. For them, dist-upgrades are well understood and not blind luck. If you're disagreeing with that statement, I'd like to hear more.
For them, dist-upgrades are well understood and not blind luck.
Ubuntu specifically tells you not to do a dist-upgrade, so your supposed evidence of how easy it must be doesn't even pass the smell test. The "correct" upgrade process is do-release-upgrade.
Unfortunately, that process still is not a complete solution, as demonstrated by the multiple clusterfucks I've had to clean up when people tried to use their upgrade process.
Even if they had succeeded, that would tell you nothing -- Ubuntu is a commercial operation with a substantial amount of money behind it. Linux Mint is not. ReactOS would be a perfect Windows clone if everything a funded corporation accomplished were easy.
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You talking to me? I never said I had the solution to the general problem. I only said that it doesn't seem like as big a problem as the Mint guys claim.
True, I did say that Ubuntu has solved this problem. For them, dist-upgrades are well understood and not blind luck. If you're disagreeing with that statement, I'd like to hear more.
Ubuntu specifically tells you not to do a dist-upgrade, so your supposed evidence of how easy it must be doesn't even pass the smell test. The "correct" upgrade process is do-release-upgrade.
Unfortunately, that process still is not a complete solution, as demonstrated by the multiple clusterfucks I've had to clean up when people tried to use their upgrade process.
Even if they had succeeded, that would tell you nothing -- Ubuntu is a commercial operation with a substantial amount of money behind it. Linux Mint is not. ReactOS would be a perfect Windows clone if everything a funded corporation accomplished were easy.