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How only Ubuntu ever works

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-2th mistake: consider dual booting when trying out a new version of an operating system

-1th mistake: not using the wonderfully powerful command line tools available in GNU/Linux to make a copy of the Ubuntu 12.04 system. Some use dd or dress it up with CloneZilla, others use filesystem level tools like tar then restore grub with a live image. Point is you can always get back...

0th mistake: going out to work without a USB stick containing a known working live image. You can boot of a USB even if the hard drive dies. Plug another USB stick in for storage.

Not gloating, I've made all these mistakes at least once!

All valid points! I hate dual booting, however. Tried many times and I never actually boot into the second OS. And, yeah, definitely should have not left my usb stick at home.

I run Ubuntu at work and Fedora at home; i also ran Fedora at my previous job. Ubuntu has been very far from a "trusty rock" (eg two weeks ago it wouldn't boot to X because it had somehow installed two conflicting versions of the Nvidia drivers, and was running the kernel module from one and the userspace client from another, wat), whereas Fedora really has been hassle-free, despite generally having fresher versions of packages.

Given that Fedora is so good, and given that it has an impeccable pedigree and is not exactly obscure, why do i never hear about people using it?

AHAHA that error was f'd up. Yes, it has its crazyness', ocasionally, but I had a mighty good time with 12.04. Let's see how 13.10 behaves as my main driver.

About Fedora, I have fiddled with it in my Linux-discovery days (not that I'm any kind of pro! on the contrary) and found it to be rather OK, but right now I dont want to waste any time getting to know a different structure, different package manager, etc etc. That takes time and I'd like to focus on some important objectives on 2014.

Thanks for the tip though! (And for the read! Very excited for being noticed on the big orange ocean.)

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