On Sun, 2015-01-25 at 21:50 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Live-based new installs appear to be the way to go, with fedup
handling the upgrade path. The good thing about it is that this gives
you a fairly good way to figure out whether or not you have a
compatibility problem with your hardware.
My experience with live DVDs is that they're a poor indicator. I've had
Live discs that simply cannot be made to run, are as slow as molasses
that you'd consider the PC too slow to run Linux (*), or discs that run
but a normal install cannot be made to. So I always use them with large
dose of skepticism.
* That slowness isn't just down to disc drive speed, but the graphics
seem painfully slow, and even applications that you've given time to
fully load up.
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