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 goā¦ except the drives. We were nervous, my friend really felt we should reinstall. There was debate, and drama. Considerations and exceptions. No, I couldnāt let my OS go. I have spent years tweaking and tuning, molding my ideal computing environment. We pushed forward.
Well Iām 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.
Glad to hear of this success story, never reinstall a perfectly crafted OS!
Around 2007 I had a Windows laptop die on me and drove me to device agnosticism. Maybe I learned the wrong lesson but now I keep my OS and data separate enough that a b0rked OS is an hourās inconvenience instead of a dayās recovery.
Still, itās pretty awesome that you can just shuck a drive into a totally new machine and only have to adjust network settings.
Advanced windows users are going to be checking you out
Thatās the power of Linux, mister/miss.
Thatās one thing I donāt like about modern Linux is how it names network interfaces.
I miss the old eth0,1,3 or wlan0,1,2 etc.
Thatās comforting to know.
I have kinda the opppsite: a machine that isnāt changing itās hardware, but it hasnāt had updates in ~2 years (due to some issues with an AUR package back thenā¦)
I wonder if itāll upgradeā¦?
Iāve kept arch-keyring updating now & againā¦ so it should work, but I know packages change dependencies so, itāll be an interesting one (ie full backup first)
I brought a 10 month old system up to date and here is the advice I was given:
- Update from tty
- Update archlinux-keyring first
- Reboot immediately after update is complete
Unexpectedly, I did not have to resolve any dependency issues. I just hit āenterā on any prompt lol
