On 01 May 13:33, Simon Elliott wrote:
Hey Barry,
If I was you I'd consider Xubuntu for an all round faster Ubuntu experience.
http://xubuntu.org/ of course.. 8.04 is brilliant. Unfortunately the best way to get it is to do a fresh install, however if you backup your entire home directory including all the hidden folders, you will retain most if not all your settings. Not sure about wireless settings though.. Have a little Google around to find out where they're stored.
This is not windows, reinstalls are usually a complete pain in the arse, dropping out wireless config, network config, mailserver relay config, etc etc etc. If I did a reinstall for each upgrade I'd end up spending more time upgrading and then fixing all the bits of config than actually being able to use the machine. Personally, I value my time.
Xubuntu is purely a different set of defaults, it's entirely encompassed in the Ubuntu repository. In order to install the xubuntu desktop environment simply: sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install xubuntu-desktop
If you then want to clear out bits of gnome, you should be able to do: sudo aptitude remove ubuntu-desktop
Which should remove the unused (i.e. automatically installed) packages that make up the meta package leaving anything that's depended on by later packages that you installed.
Ubuntu and Debian both *strive* to make *UPGRADES* work, why crap on that hard work with a reinstall?!
*sigh*,