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Arch is quite close to that. I moved from Debian to Arch for my main home server because I was fed up with reinstalling between versions. Now I think you can u

Arch is quite close to that. I moved from Debian to Arch for my main home server because I was fed up with reinstalling between versions. Now I think you can upgrade in place. I will be back to Debian at some point because Arch requires me to remember to update. It works great but since I have everything on docker it depends not make much sense to be bleeding edge

cassianoleal 2y ago
> reinstalling between versions When did Debian require a reinstall between versions? I've been upgrading in place since around 1996. In those early years, sometimes upgrades had rough spots but that hasn't been the case for at least a couple decades.
- BrandoElFollito 2y ago
  Nice track record! You may have used my tiny contribution to the kernel from ca. 1995 if you used a specific (but common) NIC at the time :) I came back to Debian when it was 7 or 8 and installed it 6 months before the next release. The upgrade notes made it very clear that in place upgrades are an abomination and that I will burn in hell if I do that. Or something like that. So I reinstalled. And took a Leo of faith in the next version by using "stable" as the distribution, apt dist-upgrade and all. It worked ! Maybe the alarming messages are now gone, good thing. I will be switching from arch to debian soon and stay there for ever.