I’ve moved to rolling release distros long time ago, I don’t know what is the current situation. But back then reinstalling was the less painful way of updating point release distros. Because the old one was version locked for so much time, one had to spend a lot of time and effort to migrate to a newer release, figure out what replaces what etc
What do you do when you update the release point? You don’t suddenly discover that alsa is a thing of the past and half of the system migrated to pulse now? That a distro package for light http or socks or some other niche is discontinued and now you have to migrate to another software? And you can’t approach those one at a time, as in a new installation or rolling release, either you migrate or you don’t?
Those were my observations
I’ve moved to rolling release distros long time ago, I don’t know what is the current situation. But back then reinstalling was the less painful way of updating point release distros. Because the old one was version locked for so much time, one had to spend a lot of time and effort to migrate to a newer release, figure out what replaces what etc
I must be doing something wrong with my 15 years old Debian installation, then.
What do you do when you update the release point? You don’t suddenly discover that alsa is a thing of the past and half of the system migrated to pulse now? That a distro package for light http or socks or some other niche is discontinued and now you have to migrate to another software? And you can’t approach those one at a time, as in a new installation or rolling release, either you migrate or you don’t?
Those were my observations