Post B6JxTvP4IEU0w4SERU by jamesog@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B6JxTu0vSVZqcu9RAm by benjojo@benjojo.co.uk
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The Debian Bookworm -> Trixie upgrade path is by far the [worst/most explosive] I have in recent memory, on the same level of tricky as the sysvinit -> systemd migrationThe sysctls location change being the #1 killer, but there are so many paper cuts in that particular upgrade to keep an eye out for
(DIR) Post #B6JxTuyprlV1ciBHYO by arjjra@mastodon.nl
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@benjojo yeah reverted a couple of “yolo we’ll see how it goes” upgrades to their pre upgrade snapshot already, worse score than usual
(DIR) Post #B6JxTvCJ3gH6IUU2YC by tmcfarlane@toot.community
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@benjojo I must admit, it's the major upgrade path that stopped me running debian as a desktop. (not that arch is /that/ much better, but the "do magic step to switch major subsystem" parts tend to be rarer, but scarier).
(DIR) Post #B6JxTvP4IEU0w4SERU by jamesog@mastodon.social
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@benjojo NixOS is calling to you…
(DIR) Post #B6JxTyKvO5x225XSts by dee@social.treehouse.systems
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@benjojo I am old, I still think of Linux upgrades as "backup your data, wipe the machine, install the new version, restore your data",