Bree Cowie wrote:
I ran sudo apt-get update && dist--upgrade after installing the iso from the desktop icon
dist-upgrade - Well there's the problem.
The very best way to do updates in UberStudent - it depends on your goal.
The default settings in the Update Manager are very conservative and favor a smooth-running, stable system, because that's really what we want in a distro aimed at students who really will not normally welcome having to take time to fix computer issues in the middle of a busy semester and with three papers due tomorrow.

The default settings in the Upgrade Manager will never upgrade your kernel, for example, unless it is flagged "high" in priority by the upstream packagers, because stability is normally more important. UberStudent is designed to "work out of the box" when installed and we wish to keep things running that way. Using
only the Update Manager is the way to best reach that goal.
On the other hand, if you don't mind things possibly going awry from time to time, have a blast as you wish, and please learn lots as you do. It's Linux, after all.
dist-upgrade is and always will be buggy in anything flavored with Ubuntu, and even more so with anything upstream of it that uses it's own code-named repository, like UberStudent or, say, Linux Mint. I'm going to see if I can figure out how to display a warning message to users in the next version of UberStudent should dist-upgrade command ever be run.
