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submitted 1 week ago by CaptDust to c/[email protected]

I undertook a sizeable upgrade today, bringing a skylake era build into the 2020s with a 13th gen. All core components- memory, motherboard, GPU, everything must go... except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldn't let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.

Well I'm pleased to say it was mostly uneventful. The ethernet adapter was renamed causing misconfigured dhcp, but otherwise it booted right up like nothing happened. Sorry, linux is boring now.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sorry, linux is boring now now.

I found that on OpenSUSE. Once getting past the learning curve of linux and OpenSUSE's general use, It has updated flawlessly for years and there is never anything to tinker with.

[-] HumanPerson 1 points 1 week ago

Not tumbleweed, right? I recall generally recall liking it until the kde 6 update broke everything if you tried to update from konsole in kde, and I remember others having the same issue. Not sure how they didn't catch that.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I was considering tumbleweed on my work laptop. This makes me nervous. Was it easy to fix?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's fixed. In general no distro is fail safe, recently even an immutable distro (our current hopeful advance in update reliability) had a hickup on an update that required manual intervention. It basically boils down to that it's not possible to test for everything, we can only hope to continually add more test cases and improve human procedures based on post mortems.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I understand your point completely. I'm a long time Arch Linux user, so I'm not averse to manual interventions.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Leap with Gnome. Really solid

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