Re: Install vs Upgrade --was [Re: new computer arriving soon]
On Monday 23 December 2024 08:50:25 am Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/22/24 3:18 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> > [snip]
> > That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work.
> >
> > Confident in my skills? Yeah, I'd say so. Though there's a whole
> > lot of stuff I'd rather not have to bother with to get things functional ...
> > I'd much rather let the software set all of this up.
> >
> > .... I need to upgrade, anyhow. Having gone through the whole upgrade of
> > Debian once on this box, I'd rather not go through that again multiple times,
> > so I'm going to just install 12.something on the new machine and then try and
> > port things over as best I can.
> >
> >[snip]
> >>
> >> i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
> >> management system so that also indicates someone who's
> >> more into command line things.
> >
> > Sometimes. It depends on what I'm trying to do. Most of the time lately it
> > comes down to email, web browsing, and managing those files that I keep on
> > collecting, mostly by plugging them into an HTML "tree" that lives on my server...
>
> I date back to PETs and S-100. Left MS for Debian Squeeze ~2011.
> I've never followed the upgrade path as there wasn't usually anything I
> needed/wanted until far into the release cycle. I've entirely skipped at
> least one release. I have minimal web exposure and even then cookies and
> JavaScript are disabled. My primary internet connectivity is text based
> email and USENET. Fresh install route has had minimal problems.
>
> YMMV
I'm not too far from that position, though of course the background stuff is rather different. I still have a couple of CP/M machines in my office here, ferinstance, though it's been a while since I fired one up. :-)
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