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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:52:17 -0500, Paul wrote:

> On Sun, 1/12/2025 6:47 PM, David wrote:
>> On 12/01/2025 23:11, David wrote:
>> [....]
>>> Hello again, Paul - UPDATE!
>>>
>>> All good exercise to keep the grey matter ticking over! I'm just
>>> completing the *full installation* of Ubuntu alongside Windows 10 on
>>> my old Dell laptop. I awarded it 100GB of space on the disk.
>>>
>>> It's taking longer than I expected. I'll report back later.
>> 
>> For your interest:-
>> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5yM4ZYwB_s
>> 
>> I am familiar with Ubuntu. I have it as a dual boot on my ancient Dell
>> DESKTOP computer which is still running Windows XP (but I rarely fire
>> it up!)
>> 
>> 
> It's a 6GB DVD and uses Snaps for installation.
> 
> As soon as the install is finished, the Snaps need to be updated
> *again*.
> 
> Yes, I could see that being a bit slow.

I upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04 a couple of days ago. There were a couple 
of speed bumps that needed manual intervention but it went fairly rapidly.

Until the 'cleanup' phase that is. It spent 25 minutes 'searching for 
obsolete software'.  WTF?