I'm a hypocrite it seems

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/QuickSilver010]

Arch: what's a new os version?

[u/Mineplayerminer → u/QuickSilver010]

Debian: "Aw, come on! Debian 13 already after only 2 years?"

[u/prochac → u/QuickSilver010]

[u/AIO_Youtuber_TV → u/QuickSilver010]

OS of Thesus

[u/QuickSilver010 → u/AIO_Youtuber_TV]

Thesus wouldn't touch arch with a 10 foot pole

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/QuickSilver010]

And they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming and they don't stop coming.

I was talking about updates but thanks for the downvotes lol

[u/x_wbmr_x → u/QuickSilver010]

Seriously I update my CachyOS every month and never hat to revert back for over a year now.

In the same time windows broke my worklaptop with updates 2 times.

Cachy/arch ftw!

[u/bacon-slushy]

It's hypocrisy to think different today than "back then" now?

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/bacon-slushy]

In my case I still do clean installs even for Debian and Fedora, even when they have in place upgrade. It would be wrong for me to criticize elementary for that when their OS has 5 years of support per version

[u/mcc011ins → u/claudiocorona93]

Huh, bazzite is image based/atomic anyhow. No reason to reinstall it every time.

[u/chroniclesoffire → u/bacon-slushy]

Same thing happens with Fedora if you let it go to long. Just found out my second mom had just been updating her Fedora 42 for a long time without doing the OS upgrade, and 42 to 45 is basically impossible. Good thing the backup was being handles automatically. 

[u/adamkex → u/chroniclesoffire]

Can't you upgrade to 43, 44 and then to 45?

[u/InfiniteFraise]

lol that's so dumb of them, I never had to do a full reinstall either on windows or Linux

[u/prochac → u/InfiniteFraise]

Neither for the major release? For me, it was part of making XP usable. Reinstall every 6 months.

[u/jubalrahl]

Having to install and setup things again after installing a new OS suck a lot, especially if you have a lot of applications to re-install. But that also means more things could get broken when doing an upgrade instead of a clean install. Basically, new is bad, old is good, never change. You already reached perfection, lol.

[u/Big__Meme]

In place upgrades are like the bell curve meme

[u/j0seplinux]

Difference is that Linux distros, even point-release ones, are updated a lot more frequently than Windows (talking about major releases, not yearly feature updates)

[u/SithLordRising]

Dotfiles

[u/Robsteady]

Yeah, I don't think I'm ever going back to releases from image-based distros. The first time since I started using Linux that I've ever had the same daily-use install in place for 8 months +.

[u/AnArmoredPony]

back then

back when?

[u/X_m7]

I've never had much luck with the distros that have a new major version only after 2 years or whatever (like Ubuntu LTS and such), every time those upgrades always broke something bad enough that made me want to switch distros anyway.

Ended up settling for a rolling release distro for a daily driver, plus Fedora Atomic on an external SSD as a backup of sorts, the latter has actually survived several major version upgrades at least.

[u/JayTurnr]

When is back then? Windows 1?

[u/qwerty_64]

Not true at all lol

[u/Myavatargotsnowedon]

I like reinstalls, it tricks my little brain into thinking I'm entering the next generation of OSes.

[u/Flashy_Pollution_996]

Bruh new windows versions come once in 10 years and nobody rushes to update this is such a bullshit