Re: Installing newer kernels
On 2016-03-19, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>>
>> This wipe business strikes me as vaguely scatological. Clean and
>> cruftless and wiped (and do they wash their hands fifty times a day
>> too, just to be impeccable)?
>
> I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software.
> I modify system configuration files. I'm too lazy to identify and
> understand all of the ramifications of the two prior sentences, so
> reverting the changes so that a dist-upgrade can work cleanly is not
> practical. Basically, I'm lazy. I want to pop in a disk/USB, get to a
> known good state, and then start my butchery all over again. ;-)
>
I understand what you're saying and I'm fine with it. Still--caeteris
paribus--the dist-upgrade process is a good, known, proven path to
moving from one stable release to the next. To suggest otherwise is
wrong.
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