I’ve been running Mint since 17.x and have only had one upgrade fail in all that time. You’re very unlikely to have a problem, but backup your system just in case!
Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.
Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.
You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
And that happened in the span of one month too.
Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤
so far it’s been so good! i think the only issue i’ve had with linux is that it will randomly freeze everything (usually if I try to load a tab in librewolf/chrome that’s a chonky boi or if i’m in zoom) on my laptop and i have to hard reset and i can’t figure out how to search for it because i really don’t know what causes it :(
I’d post to the Linux community on Lemmy or the Linux Mint support forum and someone(s) will guide you. There’s even a guide to help you gather information and ask effective questions. I’m a Linux newb so I’m not very helpful on the technical end, but let me know if I can assist.
oh god i’m nervous i just switched from windows to linux in march and this will be my first big update :o
I’ve been running Mint since 17.x and have only had one upgrade fail in all that time. You’re very unlikely to have a problem, but backup your system just in case!
ooh i have timeshift automatically set up anyway :)
Or use something like TimeShift and set it to automatically create backups.
Before I switched to the boringly stable Bazzite, TimeShift was a godsend. I was able to learn so much about Linux just by not having to worry about fucking up my install because whenever I did, it was trivial to rollback.
You got people like this guy and then you got me who had to reinstall mint 3 times because of upgrade and compatibility issues and then I eventually gave up on it 😭😭
And that happened in the span of one month too.
Eventually switched to Kubuntu and now I use Arch btw WITH BTRFS 🤤
Hooray for
boobiesBTRFS!Worth mentioning you are a okay not to update.
I adore the Linux community because it’s collectively so nice. If you cock it up, someone here will help you fix it.
so far it’s been so good! i think the only issue i’ve had with linux is that it will randomly freeze everything (usually if I try to load a tab in librewolf/chrome that’s a chonky boi or if i’m in zoom) on my laptop and i have to hard reset and i can’t figure out how to search for it because i really don’t know what causes it :(
I’d post to the Linux community on Lemmy or the Linux Mint support forum and someone(s) will guide you. There’s even a guide to help you gather information and ask effective questions. I’m a Linux newb so I’m not very helpful on the technical end, but let me know if I can assist.
I’m in the same boat! Gonna update tomorrow when I’m not sleepy