Has anyone else rolled back to 9.04?

[Dvdre]

I was dual booting 9.04 with Windows Vista on a new Sony Vaio NW130, and all was working well. When I upgraded to Windows 7, I did a clean install and wiped the boot into Ubuntu. So I decided to reinstall 9.10 instead of 9.04.

OK, 9.10 looks nice while loading and it loads a bit quicker. But I could not -- after maybe 10 tries -- manage to get a driver loaded for the ATI Radeon 4570. When I tried to get the laptop to go to sleep upon the lid being shut, Ubuntu dimmed out and froze upon lid being opened. That happened every time, so I had to stop the laptop from going to sleep. When I tried to install software with Synaptic, I hit roadblocks and errors.

So I went back to 9.04 and I reinstalled the ATI driver in about 10 minutes and I downloaded Firefox 3.5 and got that running (the biggest feature I wanted from 9.10.)

I was glad to get a taste of 9.10 and I will probably like it in six months when it settles down.

[philinux]

On nvidia here so no problems at all. On lappy it's Intel integrated, again no problems.

[Tholley]

I had a problem installing 9.10 on a very old pc, but was a grub problem that didn't get solved, (after extensive troubleshooting) and so re-istalled 9.04 and is working fine now.

but I must add, I do have 9.10 installed on a little newer machine and it works fine.

[Phillip Spencer]

Certainly thinking about it! I did a clean install on i386 desktop and i386 laptop plus an upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 on an AMD64 laptop and all had problems, particularly with slowed down internet - seems to be due to IPv6 & DNS (see bug #417757). Installing additional programs on the two clean installs kept bringing up msttcorefont problems (see bug #431217). Unfortunately, I had already done upgrade by this time which had latter problem during upgrade process.

Since the AMD64 is going to be used by my daughter for her college work I am trying to decide now whether to cut my losses and do a clean install of 9.04 or stick with 9.10 when I pass it over to her next week.

What is strange to me (as a newcomer to these forums and bug reporting... I was an ex-Windows, use Ubuntu out of the box person from 8.04 on) is the mixed experience I have been seeing on the Forum survey on 9.10... a number of people have dropped back to 9.04 but others had no issues whatsoever... those that do have seen a variety of problems.

For the survey and comments see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1305924

Hope you get a better insight from that!

[coldReactive]

I tried using 8.04 even because of all the "problems." But I ended up having more problems than I could shake a stick at.

So I went back to Karmic, as it was seemingly better.

[louieb]

Dual boot Jaunty and Karmic on my IBM T30 laptop. Still don't use Karmic much. I'm staying with Jaunty - and replacing karmic with the Lucid Lynx.

[andrew.46]

I have had a completely trouble-free time with Karmic Koala and would not consider rolling back. I could be wrong but my general impression is that this is the case with most users? Which is not to belittle the problems you have been having .

Andrew

[jeffxmora]

I am thinking about it!!!!

[ibbill]

very soon 9.04 rocks 9.10 is a new vista

[wojox]

I had a great time with 8.10 (first linux distro)

Had an even better time with 9.04.

9.10 is the greatest so far.

I must be pretty lucky.