Linux

46777 readers

1907 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

when you upgrade an OS, do you clean install or upgrade? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

56 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Rolling with Gentoo here. Reinstall is not performed even when complete hardware upgrade has been done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I also use a rolling release distro, my disk died last week so I had to reinstall, so technically FULL hardware update might require a reinstall (safer than copying the root folder from one disk to another since the old one was bad), but yeah, before that I've replaced almost every piece of that laptop without a reinstall, even switched from Nvidia to AMD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, yeah. Hard drive failure can force a reinstall. And with laptops there isn't usually another place for a hard drive, from where to restore the system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brainfart, I said laptop meant desktop, obviously didn't change the GPU on a laptop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

*Framework has entered the chat*