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  • 1: I’m assuming (hoping) this wouldn’t be a full wipe and start over? It should just upgrade right?

    Yes, you can upgrade in-place. If I recall correctly, you just have to change the release channel from LTS to non-LTS in the Sources app, then trigger an update (I don’t quite remember how to do)

    2: Do I need to do the whole USB route, and if so is there an option to keep everything (I’m hoping, I put a LOT of work into this so far and I don’t remember if that was an option on first install).

    No, as I said above. But it’s always a good idea to have backups if you ever need to wipe and re-install.

    3: I remember a few apps I installed were specific to Noble, will this break those apps?

    Hard to be 100% sure without knowing which apps and how they were installed, but most likely yes as their dependencies might no longer be available on Plucky.

    4: It seems like there should be an option to upgrade from the desktop, but I don’t have that option. If I run plasma-distro-release-notifier I should get an update notification right? In which case I can just say “hell yeah!” and it’ll do its thing?

    Refer to my first answer









  • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlBazzite or Suse?
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    2 months ago

    I’d pick OpenSUSE over Bazzite because I don’t like the idea of updates possibly overwriting anything I install myself that isn’t flatpak/distrobox/homebrew

    In atomic distributions you would install non-sandboxed programs in a layer that is applied on top of the base system. When your system is updated, that layer is applied back on top of the updated system. The only possible breakage would be if what you installed depends on a dependency in the base system that has been removed or which is no longer compatible.