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when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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clean install: you make a backup, nuke the computer, install a fresh upgraded copy of the distro you want from a live usb, copy your data again to the computer.

upgrade: you wait 'till the distro' developers release an upgrade you can directly install from your soon to be old distro, you use a command like sudo do-release-upgrade

and why do you upgrade like that?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Clean install on a new computer. Then upgrades until the computer gets retired. Debian at home, Ubuntu server at work.

I like playing with distros and other OSes in VMs, if the thing doesn't have a well defined upgrade procedure it gets ditched pretty soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Try out immutable distros like NixOS: that is stunning in upgrading.

'73

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I tried once. Could not figure it out. I'll leave that to the young people.