I’ve been wondering why Mint doesn’t seem to have an automatic major version upgrade built in? For those that have an opinion, do you agree with not having this? Why/why not?
I’ve been running Mint 21 for over a year now. I started using it not long before Mint 22 came out and have been dragging my feet on upgrading in fear of breaking something and having to reinstall (and losing something in the process). I’m in the process of setting up proper backups so I’ll probably do it after those are set up (or maybe wait until Mint 23).
I don’t think I’ve ever had a debian major upgrade go well. always easier to reinstall, but the stakes are so low on my own devices
Do you follow the step-by-step docs or just yolo it?
You should be proud of yourself. I’ve never seen dist-upgrade go wrong since woody - and I’ve upgraded quite a few machines. Did you ever bother reading the release notes for a new major version?
I’m a happy middleground. I’ve had two upgrades blow up on me, out of the tens I’ve done.
One was a usrmerge catch-22. It wouldn’t let me install the package during upgrade, but also wouldn’t let me complete the upgrade without the merger finishing. Ended up reverting the install and running the merge prior to upgrade.
The second failure was just… I have no idea what I did wrong. Some commands stopped working. Then I lost SSH. Then it wouldn’t even boot. I had to do a full reinstall and rebuild. Not happy times.
Overall, it was just enough failure that I routinely run two backups prior to upgrades now. hahaha
I had some friction with Jessie to stretch and a little again from bookworm to Trixie. Nothing I couldn’t solve, but there are still a few edge cases that aren’t handled.
Funny that’s how my Slackware upgrades always went, but I’ve had a great experience with Debian every time.