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On 12/23/24 4:21 PM, D 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Even my compiled programs such as alpine, leafnode and possibly one or 
> two more, and my python invoicing application, could just be moved and 
> worked right away.
> 
> So the upgrade took me 45 minutes, and the only modification I needed to 
> do was to update my midnight commander config file, because apparently 
> someone in the project decided on a new config format between version 3 
> and version 4.
> 
> Impressive!


   What ? WHAT ??? An actual LINUX question ???!!!  :-)

   Me, I just generally avoid serious kernel upgrades ...
   just the usual auto-upgrades until I feel it's time
   to jump up two or three whole distro versions. It's
   only 'home use' now, so I'm not so worried about
   Vlad and Xi.

   Alas most of my stuff is Deb based, and WORM was
   NOT encouraging - too 'Canonical' now. DO have
   some Arch/Fedora based boxes though ... may just
   go straight Fedora for awhile ........

   DID love OpenSUSE - but now it's kinda trapped in
   the IBM/RHEL vortex. Don't wanna be an unpaid
   beta-tester for IBM.