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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: Linux upgrade.
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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.

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
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.

I often have trouble with things getting unintentionally
uninstalled.

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