Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months

On 2025-04-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-04-01 13:29, rbowman wrote:

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:48:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
 

I only did a major upgrade once with Linux Mint and it was a total
disaster on my dad's laptop. It technically worked once the process was
done, but all the graphical elements were suddenly borked. I imagine
that I could have fixed it if I really wanted to, but I wasn't willing
to spend a whole day there to fix a computer that's used exclusively to
post useless content on Facebook.

 
In my recent experience Ubuntu upgrades need hand holding while Fedora
goes smoothly. Tomorrow is a test of the Fedora upgrade to 42 that I'll
probably participate in. A few weeks ago I tested the 42 WSL install from
a rpm.
 
When OpenSUSE went to Leaf the recommendation was to do a fresh install
since upgrades weren't going well. I never did and ran 13.2.
 
Mt Debian box is still Bullseye since there were reports of problems with
Bookworm.

>
Upgrade problems are part of why I think Linux users are better off just
using a rolling distribution. Both can produce problems, but most
rolling distributions seem to have ironed out the potential problems
users might face.

Personally not a fan of rolling distributions. I don't mind using older
versions of applications until the next point or major point update.

If I do have to have the newest I'll go for an AppImage or a Flatpak.

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