when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade?

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?

shirro,

I usually roll on desktop/laptop and upgrade on headless. Just seems most practical.

D61,

make a backup

Pffftt… coward.

/s

pearsaltchocolatebar,

It’s not a clean install if you’re backing shit up!

Also, I just map my home directories to my NAS so I don’t have to worry about backups.

Sam_Bass,

Xp to 7 was upgrade. 7 to 10 was clean

laurelraven,

11 to Mint 21.2 was, obviously, clean

Sam_Bass, (edited )

The few times i tried linux i used ubuntu. And each time a newer iteration was published a complete wipe and format was done for the new one

LeFantome,

I upgrade in place more than once a week ( rolling release ).

possiblylinux127,

It depends. For Fedora I just do a in place upgrade. However once in a blue moon I do a reinstall.

Cysioland,
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Upgrade. Don’t wanna mess with restoring/preserving data and configs.

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