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.
I am not nearly organized enough for a long install
Me either. My longest install is about to turn 5, but that’s an OpenBSD closet laptop server that gets upgraded remotely with every release.
I’m doing okay on this laptop; just hit 1 year on bookworm. But I’m also bandwidth constrained (kilo-bits per second) and can’t really distrohop like I used to.