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I've never done a reinstall to upgrade Ubuntu for point releases and even major releases, I just run do-release-upgrade when I want to upgrade.

RussianCow 3y ago
I haven't used Ubuntu in a few years now, but anecdotally, do-release-upgrade has failed on me more times than I can count (in both server and desktop environments).
- creeble 3y ago
  Indeed, I no longer use do-release-upgrade and instead find it "easier" to install the new release from scratch and copy my ~user and other backups over. It's a PITA (have to install all the packages I had on old version), but I have scripts that mostly do it all for me now. If you've ever lived through a do-release-upgrade for mysql, you'll probably never do it again.
cbsks 3y ago
I did that only yesterday to upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 22.10, and now my laptop doesn’t boot. So it doesn’t always work. I am strongly considering trying Arch instead.
oldandboring 3y ago
Our experiences are different. Before I switched away to a rolling release distro (Manjaro) a couple years ago, I used Ubuntu and would perform the upgrades from one Ubuntu point release to the next. My success rate (something either moderately or critically not working after the upgrade) over those last couple years was probably about 25%. Always needed to wipe clean and reinstall, restore from backup. Tons of lost productivity. All that stopped when I went to the rolling release.
Espionage724 3y ago
I've heard too many horror-stories of major OS upgrades and even service packs back in XP and Vista days. New distro versions for me equals a clean state to make sure everything goes smoothly :p I have commands and notes that let me re-deploy within an hour on most distros, like these for Fedora: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/distros:fedora_workstation_gnome https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/distros:fedora_workstation...

RussianCow 3y ago

I haven't used Ubuntu in a few years now, but anecdotally, do-release-upgrade has failed on me more times than I can count (in both server and desktop environments).

creeble 3y ago
Indeed, I no longer use do-release-upgrade and instead find it "easier" to install the new release from scratch and copy my ~user and other backups over. It's a PITA (have to install all the packages I had on old version), but I have scripts that mostly do it all for me now. If you've ever lived through a do-release-upgrade for mysql, you'll probably never do it again.

cbsks 3y ago

I did that only yesterday to upgrade from 22.04 LTS to 22.10, and now my laptop doesn’t boot. So it doesn’t always work. I am strongly considering trying Arch instead.

oldandboring 3y ago

Our experiences are different. Before I switched away to a rolling release distro (Manjaro) a couple years ago, I used Ubuntu and would perform the upgrades from one Ubuntu point release to the next. My success rate (something either moderately or critically not working after the upgrade) over those last couple years was probably about 25%. Always needed to wipe clean and reinstall, restore from backup. Tons of lost productivity. All that stopped when I went to the rolling release.

Espionage724 3y ago

I've heard too many horror-stories of major OS upgrades and even service packs back in XP and Vista days. New distro versions for me equals a clean state to make sure everything goes smoothly :p I have commands and notes that let me re-deploy within an hour on most distros, like these for Fedora: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/distros:fedora_workstation_gnome https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/distros:fedora_workstation...