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+1 on this:
> At least for me it's almost certainly cause the CPU is non-PAE. I remember not being able to install the 12.10 version cause it didn't support non-PAE CPUs so I installed 12.04 and hoped I could upgrade it to 12.10
Of course, this happened to me too. It has been so long I had forgotten. I have a vague recollection of learning the hard way that I couldn't install 12.10 on this machine. Hence 12.04.
So there I was, happily using 12.04. And Ubuntu suggests I upgrade. Stupidly, I did. This always happens when Ubuntu suggests an upgrade. It ends up not working or messing something fundamental up. My girl friend laughs at me for always wasting so much time getting my Ubuntu computers just simply working. She uses Windows. She doesn't have this six-monthly nightmare where everything goes belly up. So this weekend, I've got a laptop that was working perfectly well and is now knackered. And instead of doing the things I was set to do this weekend, I have to reinstall my OS. Not only that, I have to find a new OS, by the looks of it, and install that.
So +1 on this too:
> I just think it would be good if istead of just showing a error, it could see that it's cause the CPU is non-PAE and say that to the user when they try to upgrade, and suggest either sticking to the current version or installing another recommended linux distro that still supports and plans to support non-PAE CPUs.
Hopefully these reports will not therefore simply be dismissed as the whinings of mumpty users too ignorant to know that the prompted Ubuntu upgrade doesn't actually apply to them.
There is a serious error here. It is a complete malfunction of human/computer interaction caused entirely by the OS' inability to communicate vital information.