I always hate to upgrade, I know everything works for me the way it is, so why make my life more complicated? After such thoughts I just forget it for a few days. (Well, actually almost always I use beta versions of Ubuntu without any problems, just this time it’s not the case) .
Ok, so the geek worm sits deep inside and it speaks louder and louder: upgrade, upgrade, upgrade… So what can I do, let’s upgrade. Click, clickity click (Update manager) and that’s it.
Upgrade to 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron was fantastic, no issues, no console time, no problems at all.
For me, Hardy broke the keyboard layout switch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-keyboard/+bug/196277
But it’s much better than Gutsy, when suspend was broken and wasn’t fixed until the next release. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/153545
I use Shift + Alt so I haven’t noticed this issue.
For me this upgrade went perfectly well on MacBook laptop, though I haven’t tried it on another box where I’m running Ubuntu in VMWare, heard that users experience serious issues after the upgrade.