From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com
On 2026-02-04, Mike Easter wrote:
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> dbnnet wrote:
>>> Looks appealing but the required re-install for every major
>>> update is a non starter for me.
>>> At least Linux Mint provides a full upgrade path, and
>>> Manjaro being a rolling distro avoids that headache too.
>>
>> There's no perfect way to handle that.
>>
>> LM's strategy is probably the best for most. The problem w/ rollers is
>> that many of them get b0rken. Mjo has a rep for pulling it off pretty
>> well. A user can develop a strategy for dealing w/ reinstall; and also
>> there's 'something to be said for that'.
>>
> There was a '25 discussion in the LM forum about upgrade vs reinstall.
>
> In that discussion there was 'support' to the idea that upgrading was
> 'OK' for the point releases, but for the full digit, that reinstall was
> 'better' than upgrading.
>
> I think the same thing can be said for rollers; and so users would be
> 'best' to organize and prepare for reinstall and to learn how to do
> that, as part of a 'multi-focal' backup plan.
>
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=444677
> LM upgrade VS clean install?
I now routinely run Mint Upgrade for major releases. So far no big issues.
Some non-repository applications, that require older libraries, have to be
reinstalled with a newer version, but that's to be expected.
Just to experiment I took an ancient Dell Latitude D430 all the way from
Linux Mint 18.1 to 22. So 18.1 to 18.3, 18.3 to 19, 19 to 19.3, 19.3 to 20,
20 to 20.3, 20.3 to 21, 21 to 21.3 and 21.3 to 22. It took forever, the D430
maxes out at 2 GBs and uses a Core 2 Duo CPU (it came out in 2008).
Obviously I wouldn't do this except as an experiment, but it did show me
that Mint Upgrade actually works pretty well.
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