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> still a lot less painful than upgrading Windows XP to 7. how do you figure that?

• lucb1e 13y ago
  Not the OP, but I just happened to upgrade from Linux Mint 15 to 16 yesterday (which is not officially supported). Also had some trouble that I needed to solve from the command line (or a live boot), but the upgrade was done in about 50 minutes, everything included. 98% of all configuration is retained, applications do not need to be reinstalled, all your files are where they belong, and it's overall very pain-free if you are tech-savvy enough to do the command line part. So yes, I would totally rate this as better than upgrading between Windows versions. Even compatible ones like Vista and 7 required much more configuration work afterwards and took longer. Less technical skill required though, but users could just pay someone to do it for them on Linux. Not sure what it's like to upgrade Mac OS X, I would actually expect the ease of Windows and compatibility like Linux there. I'm kind of curious now.