What did yall end up settling on?

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have you moved the same install around and upgraded along the way? If not, how often do you decide to reinstall fresh?

I used to go fresh every 12 months or so on Windows. Only recently started to use Linux as a desktop so wondering what others do.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Windows need a regular reinstall. Not so much on linux.
    My daily driver at work is the same install from 2000. I was so impressed with debians abillity to do a major upgrade, that it kind of became a game, to see how long i could upgrade it. A fresh install and copy over /home would have been more sane ;) Also with lvm you can migrate your running install to a new os drive while working. So hardware swap is a 5 min process. Boot new hw on old disk, with usb adapter. pvmove the install to the new drive. Install grub.

    I do fresh installs on many other machines tho. My daily driver at home and the emergency laptop is installed when they are aquired, and upgraded as long as the hardware functions.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the insight. Truly grateful you replied as I checked your comment history and there were months between comments so I thought I'd never get one :)

    I'll refrain from doing a fresh install on this, see how it goes πŸ˜„

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Really? I must not have much to say ;)

    Read the debian release docs about the major upgrade when that time comes. They sometime contain important adaptations to make your upgraded install similar to a fresh one.

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