Re: Linux upgrade.

On Wed, 26 Dec 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

As part of my christmas tradition, I always upgrade my linux when the
holiday starts. The reason is that if something goes wrong, I have a long
time to fix it, without anything work related getting in the way.

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Where practical I prefer to clone the drive and upgrade the clone,
then work on the issues while using the old OS on the original

Way to advanced for my humble infrastructure. ;) But online and in the hosting environment, snapshots are very convenient when doing any big changes. Actually, I do have btrfs on my opensuse, so when doing any upgrades, it does take a snapshot, so I do have the option of rolling back to the last good snapshot. Come to think of it, I've done it once with great success! =)

drive and finally clone the upgrade drive over when everything's
working right (after doing a backup of the old one just in case I
was wrong). So there's no deadline as such, just the annoyance of
needing to note when new software is installed during use so the
same can be done on the upgrade drive.
 

Every year, I am equally surprised when things just work. I move my dot
files, and all application are there, with the settings I'm used to.

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I often have trouble with things getting unintentionally
uninstalled.

Strangely enough, everything survived and was upgraded after the OS upgrade. Opensuse is a true ninja! I do not understand why not more people use it in production. I suspect that it is one distro that will disappear within the next 10 years or so, as SUSE gets more and more mismanaged.