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I upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04LTS. I encounter only two problems. One of the Ubuntu servers was down and the update manager was hanged, but it resumed quickly once I killed the background wget process. The other big problem was caused by ATI binary driver in combination with Compiz. After I login the first time I had a 'white screen of death'. It took me some time to figure out how to save my install, but I am newbie in Linux. Personally I don't hold this against Ubuntu, but I think this is ATI problem. I guess this is my last ATI card unless they open their driver. Personally I am Windows System Administrator and my experience with Windows is to do clean install every time. I was quite surprised that my Ubuntu upgrade worked. Now Ubuntu is my primary OS on my home desktop. Sorry Steve Ballmer, I am not going to buy Vista, not even going to 'pirated' it. MS need to pay me to use it!

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