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gilbertbw | 7 months ago

The page about upgrading [0] does have this warning:

  Back up your data
  
  Performing a release upgrade is never without risk. The upgrade may fail, leaving the system in a non-functioning state. USERS SHOULD BACKUP ALL DATA before attempting a release upgrade. DebianStability contains more information on these steps.

[0] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade

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sugarpimpdorsey|7 months ago

Yet Windows will let you roll back an upgrade with a single click within 10 days.

Of course anyone can restore from backups. It's a pain and it's time consuming.

My post serves more as a warning to those who may develop buyer's remorse.

necheffa|7 months ago

This is what LVM/btrfs/ZFS snapshots were invented for.

Windows is using Volume Shadow Copies, which for the purposes of this discussion, you can think of as roughly equivalent.

sellmesoap|7 months ago

I always find the rough edges on upgrading windows (and macos), I've had several computers that take 3-4 hours to hit a roadblock, give a inscrutable error message and rollback. I feel spoiled using nixos (once you get over the learning curve)

jraph|7 months ago

You might like snapshot based solutions like Snapper

wiz21c|7 months ago

as much as I love Debian (been a faithful user since 25 years or so, no more Windows at home since then), that Windows ability is just really cool and Debian is still not on par I believe...

a5c11|7 months ago

If you keep your /home on a separate partition, you can basically reinstall a whole system without much efforts. It's good to do that from time to time. etckeeper is very helpful too. Lots of desktop apps are AppImage nowadays, so if you keep them in the home directory, they'll persist.

BoredPositron|7 months ago

You know imaging your machine is still an option...

crtasm|7 months ago

Linux Mint offers rollbacks, I have snapshots going back a point release and a major version.