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 couldnât let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.
Well Iâm 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.
Me either. My longest install is about to turn 5, but thatâs an OpenBSD closet laptop server that gets upgraded remotely with every release.
Iâm doing okay on this laptop; just hit 1 year on bookworm. But Iâm also bandwidth constrained (kilo-bits per second) and canât really distrohop like I used to.
