Originally posted by Peter Johnson:
The auto-update feature hosed my system.
Ubuntu has a decidedly mixed record on automatic updates, especially on laptops I never could get my main laptop to upgrade from 7.4 to 7.10 and have it actually work. And yet the update code would not go from 7.4 direct to 8.4. So I ended up waiting for 8.4, doing a quick update from 7.4 to 7.10 and then immediately do the update to 8.4.
Since 8.4 is a LTS (long term support) I don't expect to ever update this laptop again. When it dies, I'll get whatever is current on its replacement.
I'm not sure I'll even stay in the Ubuntu world, I've had much better luck with pure Debian, and it doesn't change as often.
Mark Shuttleworth, the guy who pays the bills for Ubuntu, has said that making deliveries of new release on time is critical in his view. I think he is wrong, getter releases that work is more important than when. But he's a billionaire, so what do I know?