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Subject: Re: reinstall Windows 11 every two months
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On 2025-04-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-04-01 13:29, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 08:48:13 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>> 
>>> I only did a major upgrade once with Linux Mint and it was a total
>>> disaster on my dad's laptop. It technically worked once the process was
>>> done, but all the graphical elements were suddenly borked. I imagine
>>> that I could have fixed it if I really wanted to, but I wasn't willing
>>> to spend a whole day there to fix a computer that's used exclusively to
>>> post useless content on Facebook.
>> 
>> In my recent experience Ubuntu upgrades need hand holding while Fedora
>> goes smoothly. Tomorrow is a test of the Fedora upgrade to 42 that I'll
>> probably participate in. A few weeks ago I tested the 42 WSL install from
>> a rpm.
>> 
>> When OpenSUSE went to Leaf the recommendation was to do a fresh install
>> since upgrades weren't going well. I never did and ran 13.2.
>> 
>> Mt Debian box is still Bullseye since there were reports of problems with
>> Bookworm.
>
> Upgrade problems are part of why I think Linux users are better off just 
> using a rolling distribution. Both can produce problems, but most 
> rolling distributions seem to have ironed out the potential problems 
> users might face.

Personally not a fan of rolling distributions. I don't mind using older 
versions of applications until the next point or major point update.

If I do have to have the newest I'll go for an AppImage or a Flatpak.

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