I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
In a “fresh” upgrade you use the liveDVD of the new release to perform a new installation and to overwrite your existing partitions.
A “Fresh” upgrade consists of the following steps:
Making a backup of the data
Making a backup of the software selection
Performing a fresh installation using the liveDVD of the new release
Restoring the data
Restoring the software selection
This is the recommended way to upgrade Linux Mint and it offers the following advantages:
And it doesn’t become quite clear from this page, but this was linked through the announcement for Mint 22, i.e. instructions to upgrade from 21.3 to 22. They do provide a GUI for in-place upgrades, though, so they at least generally support both methods, which is different for MX Linux (MX does provide instructions for upgrading in-place, but I found them absurdly complicated compared to Debian or Ubuntu).
Aren’t mint users supposed to reinstall when it’s time for a major version update, anyway?
Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.
I don’t think that’s how that works Ü
I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4980
You talking about like this?
No, that’s a point release; it would be insane to reinstall for point releases. I’m talking about this: https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
And it doesn’t become quite clear from this page, but this was linked through the announcement for Mint 22, i.e. instructions to upgrade from 21.3 to 22. They do provide a GUI for in-place upgrades, though, so they at least generally support both methods, which is different for MX Linux (MX does provide instructions for upgrading in-place, but I found them absurdly complicated compared to Debian or Ubuntu).
Oh okay i see. I would probably just collect all of those whenever in like 5 years i end up needing to do a reinstallation for something else.