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.

  • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
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    6 months ago

    That’s comforting to know.

    I have kinda the opppsite: a machine that isn’t changing it’s hardware, but it hasn’t had updates in ~2 years (due to some issues with an AUR package back then…)

    I wonder if it’ll upgrade…?

    I’ve kept arch-keyring updating now & again… so it should work, but I know packages change dependencies so, it’ll be an interesting one (ie full backup first)

    • mrvictory1@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I brought a 10 month old system up to date and here is the advice I was given:

      • Update from tty
      • Update archlinux-keyring first
      • Reboot immediately after update is complete

      Unexpectedly, I did not have to resolve any dependency issues. I just hit “enter” on any prompt lol

      • SayCyberOnceMoreEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        Thanks, good to know… although I’ll do one other thing first… a full backup with clonezilla first ;)