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Do they support upgrading yet though? If I wanted to reinstall my OS every year I'd go back to using Windows 95
by mavhc 10y ago
Do they support upgrading yet though? If I wanted to reinstall my OS every year I'd go back to using Windows 95
- Sylos 10y agoYou can manually edit the APT-sources to point to the new release and then let it perform a dist-upgrade, which is, as far as I understand it, the same as Ubuntu or Fedora do automatically. The Linux Mint devs just don't think that's a good way of handling upgrades, so they don't have a button for it. You can read their reasoning here in section E : https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2 https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
- mavhc 10y agoExcept unlike the other OSes, they don't test it. That's why I went back to Ubuntu
- type0 10y agoWell, they support it for better or worse, you can upgrade from version 17 to 18 since they don't use systemd, on Ubuntu if you go from 14.04 to 16.04 you should do clean install.