On 28/09/14 16:29, Steve Litt wrote:
I assume that implicit in your reply is that such a major version upgrade works well, and that over the years you don't get all sorts of accumulated software dust bunnies doing funny things to you. How many others here have experiences like Chris'?
Well, this jessie-with-systemd system I'm using used to be a wheezy system. I changed my sources.list and upgraded things, and it all just *worked*. Couple of minor issues (the behaviour of something in xfce4-panel changed, so I had to add a "separator" element to get the clock and the systray and the workspace selector to continue appearing at the right-hand end where they belong instead of bouncing back and forth as I open and close windows), but pretty much painless.
The only material hassle I've had with this Debian installation is entirely a result of using a closed graphics driver (because the libre driver for my hardware renders my video games incorrectly and at an unacceptable frame rate) whose upstream was slow to update for compatibility with the latest xorg; I am declaring that to be Not Debian's Fault.
As another example, the multi-user system run by an acquaintance from university on which I have a shell account has been upgraded *many* times.