I disagree. Ubuntu hosed our central devops MySQL completely on a 10.04 LTS update...
As with everything in IT, YMMV.
As with everything in IT, YMMV.
How does your anecdote fit into that, apart from "it both says Linux, so a single user desktop and a MySQL server is totally the same situation"?
My anecdote simply states that nothing is perfect and things do go wrong.
A more pertinent question is: is that less problematic as far as you are concerned or as far as the users are concerned? Also are you fully sure that you are qualified to judge this as a success based on the metrics you set out? Perhaps things take them ten times longer but they are ignorant to that fact?